Conditionally Deleterious Mutation Load Accumulates in Genomic Islands of Local Adaptation but Can Be Purged with Sufficient Genotypic Redundancy.
Am Nat
; 204(1): 43-54, 2024 Jul.
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AbstractLocal adaptation frequently evolves in patches or environments that are connected via migration. In these cases, genomic regions that are linked to a locally adapted locus experience reduced effective migration rates. Via individual-based simulations of a two-patch system, we show that this reduced effective migration results in the accumulation of conditionally deleterious mutations, but not universally deleterious mutations, adjacent to adaptive loci. When there is redundancy in the genetic basis of local adaptation (i.e., genotypic redundancy), turnover of locally adapted polymorphisms allows conditionally deleterious mutation load to be purged. The amount of mutational load that accumulates adjacent to locally adapted loci is dependent on redundancy, recombination rate, migration rate, population size, strength of selection, and the phenotypic effect size of adaptive alleles. Our results highlight the need to be cautious when interpreting patterns of local adaptation at the level of phenotype or fitness, as the genetic basis of local adaptation can be transient, and evolution may confer a degree of maladaptation to nonlocal environments.
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