Adaptive signal coloration maintained in the face of gene flow in a Hispaniolan Anolis Lizard
dc.contributor.author | Ng, Julienne | |
dc.contributor.author | Ossip-Klein, Alison G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Glor, Richard E. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-01T20:31:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-12-01T20:31:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-09-20 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Adaptive signal coloration maintained in the face of gene flow in a Hispaniolan Anolis Lizard Julienne Ng, Alison G. Ossip-Klein, Richard E. Glor BMC Evol Biol. 2016; 16: 193. Published online 2016 Sep 20. doi: 10.1186/s12862-016-0763-4 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22106 | |
dc.description.abstract | BackgroundStudies of geographic variation can provide insight into the evolutionary processes involved in the early stages of biological diversification. In particular, multiple, replicated cases of geographic trait divergence present a powerful approach to study how patterns of introgression and adaptive divergence can vary with geographic space and time. In this study, we conduct replicated, fine-scaled molecular genetic analyses of striking geographic dewlap color variation of a Hispaniolan Anolis lizard, Anolis distichus, to investigate whether adaptive trait divergence is consistently associated with speciation, whereby genetic divergence is observed with neutral markers, or whether locally adapted traits are maintained in the face of continued gene flow.ResultsWe find instances where shifts in adaptive dewlap coloration across short geographic distances are associated with reproductive isolation as well as maintained in the face of gene flow, suggesting the importance of both processes in maintaining geographic dewlap variation.ConclusionOur study suggests that adaptive dewlap color differences are maintained under strong divergent natural selection, but this divergence does not necessarily lead to anole speciation. | en_US |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.rights.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21757 | |
dc.subject | Dewlap | en_US |
dc.subject | Geographic variation | en_US |
dc.subject | Local adaptation | en_US |
dc.subject | Speciation | en_US |
dc.subject | Anolis distichus | en_US |
dc.title | Adaptive signal coloration maintained in the face of gene flow in a Hispaniolan Anolis Lizard | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Glor, Richard E. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s12862-016-0763-4 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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