Demographic divergence history of pied flycatcher and collared flycatcher inferred from whole-genome re-sequencing data.
Profound knowledge of demographic history is a prerequisite for the understanding and inference of processes involved in the evolution of population differentiation and speciation. Together with new coalescent-based methods, the recent availability of genome-wide data enables investigation of differ...
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doaj-e6506d87ddfb4d148b757de3c15560852020-11-25T01:53:32ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Genetics1553-73901553-74042013-11-01911e100394210.1371/journal.pgen.1003942Demographic divergence history of pied flycatcher and collared flycatcher inferred from whole-genome re-sequencing data.Krystyna Nadachowska-BrzyskaReto BurriPall I OlasonTakeshi KawakamiLinnéa SmedsHans EllegrenProfound knowledge of demographic history is a prerequisite for the understanding and inference of processes involved in the evolution of population differentiation and speciation. Together with new coalescent-based methods, the recent availability of genome-wide data enables investigation of differentiation and divergence processes at unprecedented depth. We combined two powerful approaches, full Approximate Bayesian Computation analysis (ABC) and pairwise sequentially Markovian coalescent modeling (PSMC), to reconstruct the demographic history of the split between two avian speciation model species, the pied flycatcher and collared flycatcher. Using whole-genome re-sequencing data from 20 individuals, we investigated 15 demographic models including different levels and patterns of gene flow, and changes in effective population size over time. ABC provided high support for recent (mode 0.3 my, range <0.7 my) species divergence, declines in effective population size of both species since their initial divergence, and unidirectional recent gene flow from pied flycatcher into collared flycatcher. The estimated divergence time and population size changes, supported by PSMC results, suggest that the ancestral species persisted through one of the glacial periods of middle Pleistocene and then split into two large populations that first increased in size before going through severe bottlenecks and expanding into their current ranges. Secondary contact appears to have been established after the last glacial maximum. The severity of the bottlenecks at the last glacial maximum is indicated by the discrepancy between current effective population sizes (20,000-80,000) and census sizes (5-50 million birds) of the two species. The recent divergence time challenges the supposition that avian speciation is a relatively slow process with extended times for intrinsic postzygotic reproductive barriers to evolve. Our study emphasizes the importance of using genome-wide data to unravel tangled demographic histories. Moreover, it constitutes one of the first examples of the inference of divergence history from genome-wide data in non-model species.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3820794?pdf=render |
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Krystyna Nadachowska-Brzyska Reto Burri Pall I Olason Takeshi Kawakami Linnéa Smeds Hans Ellegren Demographic divergence history of pied flycatcher and collared flycatcher inferred from whole-genome re-sequencing data. PLoS Genetics |
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Krystyna Nadachowska-Brzyska Reto Burri Pall I Olason Takeshi Kawakami Linnéa Smeds Hans Ellegren |
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Demographic divergence history of pied flycatcher and collared flycatcher inferred from whole-genome re-sequencing data. |
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Demographic divergence history of pied flycatcher and collared flycatcher inferred from whole-genome re-sequencing data. |
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Demographic divergence history of pied flycatcher and collared flycatcher inferred from whole-genome re-sequencing data. |
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Demographic divergence history of pied flycatcher and collared flycatcher inferred from whole-genome re-sequencing data. |
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Demographic divergence history of pied flycatcher and collared flycatcher inferred from whole-genome re-sequencing data. |
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demographic divergence history of pied flycatcher and collared flycatcher inferred from whole-genome re-sequencing data. |
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Profound knowledge of demographic history is a prerequisite for the understanding and inference of processes involved in the evolution of population differentiation and speciation. Together with new coalescent-based methods, the recent availability of genome-wide data enables investigation of differentiation and divergence processes at unprecedented depth. We combined two powerful approaches, full Approximate Bayesian Computation analysis (ABC) and pairwise sequentially Markovian coalescent modeling (PSMC), to reconstruct the demographic history of the split between two avian speciation model species, the pied flycatcher and collared flycatcher. Using whole-genome re-sequencing data from 20 individuals, we investigated 15 demographic models including different levels and patterns of gene flow, and changes in effective population size over time. ABC provided high support for recent (mode 0.3 my, range <0.7 my) species divergence, declines in effective population size of both species since their initial divergence, and unidirectional recent gene flow from pied flycatcher into collared flycatcher. The estimated divergence time and population size changes, supported by PSMC results, suggest that the ancestral species persisted through one of the glacial periods of middle Pleistocene and then split into two large populations that first increased in size before going through severe bottlenecks and expanding into their current ranges. Secondary contact appears to have been established after the last glacial maximum. The severity of the bottlenecks at the last glacial maximum is indicated by the discrepancy between current effective population sizes (20,000-80,000) and census sizes (5-50 million birds) of the two species. The recent divergence time challenges the supposition that avian speciation is a relatively slow process with extended times for intrinsic postzygotic reproductive barriers to evolve. Our study emphasizes the importance of using genome-wide data to unravel tangled demographic histories. Moreover, it constitutes one of the first examples of the inference of divergence history from genome-wide data in non-model species. |
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