Synchronous effective population size changes and genetic stability of forest trees through glacial cycles
Pascal Milesi
(1, 2)
,
Chedly Kastally
(3, 4)
,
Benjamin Dauphin
(5)
,
Sandra Cervantes
(6)
,
Francesca Bagnoli
(7)
,
Katharina Budde
(8)
,
Stephen Cavers
(9)
,
Dario Ojeda
(10)
,
Bruno Fady
(11)
,
Patricia Faivre-Rampant
(12)
,
Santiago González-Martínez
(13)
,
Delphine Grivet
(14)
,
Felix Gugerli
(5)
,
Véronique Jorge
(15)
,
Isabelle Lesur-Kupin
(13, 16)
,
Sanna Olsson
(14)
,
Lars Opgenoorth
(5)
,
Sara Pinosio
(7)
,
Christophe Plomion
(13)
,
Christian Rellstab
(5)
,
Odile Rogier
(15)
,
Simone Scalabrin
(17)
,
Ivan Scotti
(11)
,
Giovanni Vendramin
(7)
,
Marjana Westergren
(18)
,
Martin Lascoux
(1, 2)
,
Tanja Pyhäjärvi
(3, 4)
1
Uppsala University
2 IMBIM/NBIS/SciLifeLab
3 Department of Forest Sciences [Helsinki]
4 ViPS - Viikki Plant Science Centre
5 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
6 University of Oulu
7 IBBR - Istituto di Bioscienze e BioRisorse [Palermo]
8 Georg-August-University = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
9 UKCEH - UK Centre of Ecology and Hydrology
10 NIBIO - Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi=Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
11 URFM - Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes
12 EPGV - Etude du Polymorphisme des Génomes Végétaux
13 BioGeCo - Biodiversité, Gènes & Communautés
14 INIA - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria = National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology
15 BioForA - Biologie intégrée pour la valorisation de la diversité des Arbres et de la Forêt
16 Helix Venture
17 IGATS - IGA Technology Services
18 Slovenian Forestry Institute
2 IMBIM/NBIS/SciLifeLab
3 Department of Forest Sciences [Helsinki]
4 ViPS - Viikki Plant Science Centre
5 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
6 University of Oulu
7 IBBR - Istituto di Bioscienze e BioRisorse [Palermo]
8 Georg-August-University = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
9 UKCEH - UK Centre of Ecology and Hydrology
10 NIBIO - Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi=Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
11 URFM - Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes
12 EPGV - Etude du Polymorphisme des Génomes Végétaux
13 BioGeCo - Biodiversité, Gènes & Communautés
14 INIA - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria = National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology
15 BioForA - Biologie intégrée pour la valorisation de la diversité des Arbres et de la Forêt
16 Helix Venture
17 IGATS - IGA Technology Services
18 Slovenian Forestry Institute
Pascal Milesi
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Chedly Kastally
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Benjamin Dauphin
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Katharina Budde
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Stephen Cavers
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Dario Ojeda
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Bruno Fady
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Santiago González-Martínez
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Delphine Grivet
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Felix Gugerli
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Véronique Jorge
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Isabelle Lesur-Kupin
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Sanna Olsson
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Lars Opgenoorth
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Sara Pinosio
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Christophe Plomion
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Christian Rellstab
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Odile Rogier
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Simone Scalabrin
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Ivan Scotti
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Marjana Westergren
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Martin Lascoux
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Tanja Pyhäjärvi
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Abstract
Past environmental changes have shaped the demographic history and genetic diversity of natural populations, yet the timescale and strength of these effects have not been investigated systematically and simultaneously for multiple phylogenetically distant species. We performed comparative population genomic analyses and demographic inference for seven ecologically contrasting European tree species sampled across their ranges. While patterns of genetic diversity and differentiation were species-specific and best explained jointly by each species’ geographic range and dispersal ability, ancient population expansion events were shared and synchronous across species. Effective population sizes increased or remained stable over time, indicating that despite major changes in their geographic ranges, major forest tree species have been remarkably genetically resilient to the environmental challenges of repeated glacial cycles. One-Sentence Summary Population genomic analyses reveal demographic events across millions of years for seven forest tree species across Europe.