Adaptive divergence in the monkey flower Mimulus guttatus is maintained by a chromosomal inversion

Organisms exhibit an incredible diversity of life history strategies as adaptive responses to environmental variation. The establishment of novel life history strategies involves multilocus polymorphisms, which will be challenging to establish in the face of gene flow and recombination. Theory predicts that adaptive allelic combinations may be maintained and spread if they occur in genomic regions of reduced recombination, such as chromosomal inversion polymorphisms, yet empirical support for this prediction is lacking. Here, we use genomic data to investigate the evolution of divergent adaptive ecotypes of the yellow monkey flower Mimulus guttatus. We show that a large chromosomal inversion polymorphism is the major region of divergence between geographically widespread annual and perennial ecotypes. In contrast, ∼40,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms in collinear regions of the genome show no signal of life history, revealing genomic patterns of diversity have been shaped by localized homogenizing gene flow and large‐scale Pleistocene range expansion. Our results provide evidence for an inversion capturing and protecting loci involved in local adaptation, while also explaining how adaptive divergence can occur with gene flow.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Evolution; international journal of organic evolution

• Publication date

  2015-05-14

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/evo.12663PMID 25879251PMCID 5029580
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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