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Willi, Yvonne
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Willi, Yvonne
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- PublicationAccès libreAsynchronous life cycles contribute to reproductive isolation between two Alpine butterflies(2023)
;Selim Bouaouina ;Yannick Chittaro; Geographic isolation often leads to the emergence of distinct genetic lineages that are at least partially reproductively isolated. Zones of secondary contact between such lineages are natural experiments that allow investigation of how reproductive isolation evolves and co-existence is maintained. While temporal isolation through allochrony has been suggested to promote reproductive isolation in sympatry, its potential for isolation upon secondary contact is far less understood. Sampling two contact zones of a pair of mainly allopatric Alpine butterflies over several years and taking advantage of museum samples, we show that the contact zones have remained geographically stable over several decades. Furthermore, they seem to be maintained by the asynchronous life cycles of the two butterflies, with one reaching adulthood primarily in even and the other primarily in odd years. Genomic inferences document that allochrony is leaky and that gene flow from allopatric sites scales with the degree of geographic isolation. Overall, we show that allochrony has the potential to contribute to the maintenance of secondary contact zones of lineages that diverged in allopatry. - PublicationMétadonnées seulementThe Influence of Genetic Drift and Selection on Quantitative Traits in a Plant Pathogenic Fungus(2014)
;Stefansson, Tryggvi S ;McDonald, Bruce AGenetic drift and selection are ubiquitous evolutionary forces acting to shape genetic variation in populations. While their relative importance has been well studied in plants and animals, less is known about their relative importance in fungal pathogens. Because agro-ecosystems are more homogeneous environments than natural ecosystems, stabilizing selection may play a stronger role than genetic drift or diversifying selection in shaping genetic variation among populations of fungal pathogens in agro-ecosystems. We tested this hypothesis by conducting a QST/FST analysis using agricultural populations of the barley pathogen Rhynchosporium commune. Population divergence for eight quantitative traits (QST) was compared with divergence at eight neutral microsatellite loci (FST) for 126 pathogen strains originating from nine globally distributed field populations to infer the effects of genetic drift and types of selection acting on each trait. Our analyses indicated that five of the eight traits had QST values significantly lower than FST, consistent with stabilizing selection, whereas one trait, growth under heat stress (22°C), showed evidence of diversifying selection and local adaptation (QST>FST). Estimates of heritability were high for all traits (means ranging between 0.55?0.84), and average heritability across traits was negatively correlated with microsatellite gene diversity. Some trait pairs were genetically correlated and there was significant evidence for a trade-off between spore size and spore number, and between melanization and growth under benign temperature. Our findings indicate that many ecologically and agriculturally important traits are under stabilizing selection in R. commune and that high within-population genetic variation is maintained for these traits. - PublicationMétadonnées seulement
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- PublicationMétadonnées seulementAn assay for quantitative virulence in Rhynchosporium commune reveals an association between effector genotype and virulence(2014)
;Stefansson, Tryggvi S; ;Croll, DMcDonald, Bruce A - PublicationMétadonnées seulementDrift load in populations of small size and low density(2013-3-20)
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- PublicationMétadonnées seulementLocal adaptation and evolutionary potential along a temperature gradient in the fungal pathogen Rhynchosporium commune(2013)
;Stefansson, Tryggvi S ;McDonald, Bruce A - PublicationMétadonnées seulement