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Massive haplotypes underlie ecotypic differentiation in sunflowers

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  • Marco Todesco

    (University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia)

  • Gregory L. Owens

    (University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia
    University of California, Berkeley)

  • Natalia Bercovich

    (University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia)

  • Jean-Sébastien Légaré

    (University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia)

  • Shaghayegh Soudi

    (University of Calgary)

  • Dylan O. Burge

    (University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia)

  • Kaichi Huang

    (University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia)

  • Katherine L. Ostevik

    (Duke University)

  • Emily B. M. Drummond

    (University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia)

  • Ivana Imerovski

    (University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia)

  • Kathryn Lande

    (University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia)

  • Mariana A. Pascual-Robles

    (University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia)

  • Mihir Nanavati

    (University of British Columbia
    Microsoft Research)

  • Mojtaba Jahani

    (University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia)

  • Winnie Cheung

    (University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia)

  • S. Evan Staton

    (University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia)

  • Stéphane Muños

    (LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRAE, CNRS)

  • Rasmus Nielsen

    (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Lisa A. Donovan

    (University of Georgia)

  • John M. Burke

    (University of Georgia)

  • Sam Yeaman

    (University of Calgary)

  • Loren H. Rieseberg

    (University of British Columbia
    University of British Columbia)

Abstract

Species often include multiple ecotypes that are adapted to different environments1. However, it is unclear how ecotypes arise and how their distinctive combinations of adaptive alleles are maintained despite hybridization with non-adapted populations2–4. Here, by resequencing 1,506 wild sunflowers from 3 species (Helianthus annuus, Helianthus petiolaris and Helianthus argophyllus), we identify 37 large (1–100 Mbp in size), non-recombining haplotype blocks that are associated with numerous ecologically relevant traits, as well as soil and climate characteristics. Limited recombination in these haplotype blocks keeps adaptive alleles together, and these regions differentiate sunflower ecotypes. For example, haplotype blocks control a 77-day difference in flowering between ecotypes of the silverleaf sunflower H. argophyllus (probably through deletion of a homologue of FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT)), and are associated with seed size, flowering time and soil fertility in dune-adapted sunflowers. These haplotypes are highly divergent, frequently associated with structural variants and often appear to represent introgressions from other—possibly now-extinct—congeners. These results highlight a pervasive role of structural variation in ecotypic adaptation.

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  • Marco Todesco & Gregory L. Owens & Natalia Bercovich & Jean-Sébastien Légaré & Shaghayegh Soudi & Dylan O. Burge & Kaichi Huang & Katherine L. Ostevik & Emily B. M. Drummond & Ivana Imerovski & Kathry, 2020. "Massive haplotypes underlie ecotypic differentiation in sunflowers," Nature, Nature, vol. 584(7822), pages 602-607, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:584:y:2020:i:7822:d:10.1038_s41586-020-2467-6
    DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2467-6
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