The maintenance of standing genetic variation: Gene flow vs. selective neutrality in Atlantic stickleback fish.

ABSTRACT: Adaptation to derived habitats often occurs from standing genetic variation. The maintenance within ancestral populations of genetic variants favourable in derived habitats is commonly ascribed to long-term antagonism between purifying selection and gene flow resulting from hybridization across habitats. A largely unexplored alternative idea based on quantitative genetic models of polygenic adaptation is that variants favoured in derived habitats are neutral in ancestral populations when their frequency is relatively low. To explore the latter, we first identify genetic variants important to the adaptation of threespine stickleback fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus) to a rare derived habitat-nutrient-depleted acidic lakes-based on whole-genome sequence data. Sequencing marine stickleback from s

SUBMITTER: Haenel Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9299253 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature