Journal article
Large haploblocks underlie rapid adaptation in the invasive weed Ambrosia artemisiifolia
P Battlay, J Wilson, VC Bieker, C Lee, D Prapas, B Petersen, S Craig, L van Boheemen, R Scalone, NP de Silva, A Sharma, B Konstantinović, KA Nurkowski, LH Rieseberg, T Connallon, MD Martin, KA Hodgins
Nature Communications | NATURE PORTFOLIO | Published : 2023
Abstract
Adaptation is the central feature and leading explanation for the evolutionary diversification of life. Adaptation is also notoriously difficult to study in nature, owing to its complexity and logistically prohibitive timescale. Here, we leverage extensive contemporary and historical collections of Ambrosia artemisiifolia—an aggressively invasive weed and primary cause of pollen-induced hayfever—to track the phenotypic and genetic causes of recent local adaptation across its native and invasive ranges in North America and Europe, respectively. Large haploblocks—indicative of chromosomal inversions—contain a disproportionate share (26%) of genomic regions conferring parallel adaptation to loc..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Greg Owens & Michael Whitlock for discussions, and Samuel Yeaman and SarahOtto for feedback on themanuscript. We are grateful to Francois Bretagnolle, Myriam Gaudeul, Heinz Mueller-Schaerer, Gerhard Karrer, and Bruno Chauvel for their assistance in obtaining many of the samples upon which this study is based, and Marie Brunier, Fatima Sanchez Barreiro, Yohann Roy, Luna Forcioli, Jacqueline Y. Lee for assistance during lab work. We thank Vibekke Vange and the NTNU Ringve Botanical Garden team for their assistance in cultivating the plants. Some sequencing services were provided by the Norwegian Sequencing Centre, a national technology platform hosted by the University of Oslo. Some sequencing was performed by the NTNU Genomics Core Facility. Genome scaffolding was performed by Dovetail Genomics. Some analyses were performed on resources provided by Sigma2, MASSIVE M3, and ComputeCanada high performance computing platforms. We kindly thank the curators from the following herbaria for allowing us to destructively sample their precious collections: B, BR, BRNU, C, FI, G, GH, GOET, GZU, HBG, I, IASI, JE, L, LD, LY, MARS, MASS, MO, MPU, NEBC, NEU, NY, P, PH, PR, PRA, PRC, QFA, S, STU, TRH, UPS, US, W, WU. This research received support from an NTNU Onsager Fellowship award, Norwegian. Research Council Young Research Talents award 287327, and a SYNTHESYS Project award (www.synthesys.info, financed by European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7 "Capacities" Program) to M.D.M., a FORMAS (2016-00453) & Carl Trygger Foundation for Scientific Research (grant CTS 14.425) to R.S., and an ARC DP220102362 and DP180102531 and HFSP RGP0001/2019 to K.A.H.