Population genomics in two cave-obligate invertebrates confirms extremely limited dispersal between caves.
Sci Rep
; 10(1): 17554, 2020 10 16.
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| ID: mdl-33067497
ABSTRACT
Caves offer selective pressures that are distinct from the surface. Organisms that have evolved to exist under these pressures typically exhibit a suite of convergent characteristics, including a loss or reduction of eyes and pigmentation. As a result, cave-obligate taxa, termed troglobionts, are no longer viable on the surface. This circumstance has led to an understanding of highly constrained dispersal capabilities, and the prediction that, in the absence of subterranean connections, extreme genetic divergence between cave populations. An effective test of this model would involve (1) common troglobionts from (2) nearby caves in a cave-dense region, (3) good sample sizes per cave, (4) multiple taxa, and (5) genome-wide characterization. With these criteria in mind, we used RAD-seq to genotype an average of ten individuals of the troglobiotic spider Nesticus barri and the troglobiotic beetle Ptomaphagus hatchi, each from four closely located caves (ranging from 3 to 13 km apart) in the cave-rich southern Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee, USA. Consistent with the hypothesis of highly restricted dispersal, we find that populations from separate caves are indeed highly genetically isolated. Our results support the idea of caves as natural laboratories for the study of parallel evolutionary processes.
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Assunto principal:
Aranhas
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Besouros
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Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único
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Cavernas
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Genética Populacional
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Animals
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2020
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Article