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Pré-Publication, Document De Travail Année : 2021

Multiple adaptive solutions to face climatic constraints: novel insights in the debate over the role of convergence in local adaptation

Pablo Orozco-Terwengel
Filippo Biscarini
Stefan Engelen
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Alessandra Stella
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Eric Coissac
Michael Bruford
Pierre Taberlet
François Pompanon

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Abstract The extent to which genomic convergence shapes locally adapted phenotypes in different species remains a fundamental question in evolutionary biology. To bring new insights to this debate we set up a framework which aimed to compare the adaptive trajectories of two domesticated mammal species co-distributed in diversified landscapes. We sequenced the genomes of 160 sheep and 161 goats extensively managed along environmental gradients, including temperature, rainfall, seasonality and altitude, to identify genes and biological processes shaping local adaptation. Allele frequencies at adaptive loci were rarely found to vary gradually along environmental gradients, but rather displayed a discontinuous shift at the extremities of environmental clines. Of the more than 430 adaptive genes identified, only 6 were orthologous between sheep and goats and those responded differently to environmental pressures, suggesting different adaptive mechanisms in these two closely related species. Such diversity of adaptive pathways may result from a high number of biological functions involved in adaptation to multiple eco-climatic gradients, and provides more arguments for the role of contingency and stochasticity in adaptation rather than repeatability.

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hal-04186277 , version 1 (23-08-2023)

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Badr Benjelloun, Kevin Leempoel, Frédéric Boyer, Sylvie Stucki, Ian Streeter, et al.. Multiple adaptive solutions to face climatic constraints: novel insights in the debate over the role of convergence in local adaptation. 2023. ⟨hal-04186277⟩
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