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Article Dans Une Revue Evolution Letters Année : 2024

Within- and between-population comparisons suggest independently acting selection maintaining parallel clines in Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris )

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Abstract Parallel clines in traits related to adaptation in a species can be due to independent selection on a pair of traits, or due to selection in one trait resulting in a parallel cline in a correlated trait. To distinguish between the mechanisms giving rise to parallel adaptive population divergence of multiple traits along an environmental gradient we need to study variation, correlations, and selective forces within individual populations along the gradient. In many tree species, budset timing (BST) forms a latitudinal cline, and parallel clinal variation is also found in other seedling traits, such as first-year height (FYH) and fall frost injury (FFI). In this study, we set up a common garden experiment with open pollinated progeny from natural populations of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), with one large sample from single population (500 families) and smaller samples from across a latitudinal gradient. BST, FYH and induced FFI were first measured in a greenhouse. The seedlings were then planted in the field, where survival and height were measured at the age of 9 years as fitness proxies. We compared between- and within-population variation and genetic correlations of these three seedling traits, and estimated selection gradients at the family level in our main population, taking into account the potential effects of seed weight. Between-population genetic correlations between seedling traits were high (0.76–0.95). Within-population genetic correlations in the main population were lower (0.14–0.35), as in other populations (0.10–0.39). Within population, extensive adaptive variation persists in the seedling traits, in line with rather weak selection gradients, yet maintaining the clines. Although our sampling does not cover the whole cline equally, the results suggest that the individual clines in these traits are maintained by largely independently acting selection, which results in fewer constraints in adaptation under changing climate.
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hal-04538190 , version 1 (09-04-2024)

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Sonja T Kujala, Komlan Avia, Timo A Kumpula, Hanni Kärkkäinen, Juha Heikkinen, et al.. Within- and between-population comparisons suggest independently acting selection maintaining parallel clines in Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris ). Evolution Letters, 2024, 8 (2), pp.231-242. ⟨10.1093/evlett/qrad054⟩. ⟨hal-04538190⟩
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