eLife (Oct 2018)
The Aquilegia genome provides insight into adaptive radiation and reveals an extraordinarily polymorphic chromosome with a unique history
- Danièle L Filiault,
- Evangeline S Ballerini,
- Terezie Mandáková,
- Gökçe Aköz,
- Nathan J Derieg,
- Jeremy Schmutz,
- Jerry Jenkins,
- Jane Grimwood,
- Shengqiang Shu,
- Richard D Hayes,
- Uffe Hellsten,
- Kerrie Barry,
- Juying Yan,
- Sirma Mihaltcheva,
- Miroslava Karafiátová,
- Viktoria Nizhynska,
- Elena M Kramer,
- Martin A Lysak,
- Scott A Hodges,
- Magnus Nordborg
Affiliations
- Danièle L Filiault
- ORCiD
- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria
- Evangeline S Ballerini
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
- Terezie Mandáková
- Central-European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- Gökçe Aköz
- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria; Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics, Vienna, Austria
- Nathan J Derieg
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
- Jeremy Schmutz
- Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, United States; HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology, Alabama, United States
- Jerry Jenkins
- Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, United States; HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology, Alabama, United States
- Jane Grimwood
- Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, United States; HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology, Alabama, United States
- Shengqiang Shu
- Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, United States
- Richard D Hayes
- Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, United States
- Uffe Hellsten
- Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, United States
- Kerrie Barry
- ORCiD
- Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, United States
- Juying Yan
- Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, United States
- Sirma Mihaltcheva
- Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, United States
- Miroslava Karafiátová
- Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Viktoria Nizhynska
- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria
- Elena M Kramer
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
- Martin A Lysak
- Central-European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- Scott A Hodges
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
- Magnus Nordborg
- ORCiD
- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.36426
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7
Abstract
The columbine genus Aquilegia is a classic example of an adaptive radiation, involving a wide variety of pollinators and habitats. Here we present the genome assembly of A. coerulea ‘Goldsmith’, complemented by high-coverage sequencing data from 10 wild species covering the world-wide distribution. Our analyses reveal extensive allele sharing among species and demonstrate that introgression and selection played a role in the Aquilegia radiation. We also present the remarkable discovery that the evolutionary history of an entire chromosome differs from that of the rest of the genome – a phenomenon that we do not fully understand, but which highlights the need to consider chromosomes in an evolutionary context.
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