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Comparative transcriptomics and gene expression divergence associated with homoploid hybrid speciation in Argyranthemum

Ecological isolation is increasingly thought to play an important role in speciation, especially for the origin and reproductive isolation of homoploid hybrid species. However, the extent to which divergent and/or transgressive gene expression changes are involved in speciation is not well studied....

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Autores principales: White, Oliver W, Reyes-Betancort, Alfredo, Carine, Mark A, Chapman, Mark A
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10542503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37477910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad158
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author White, Oliver W
Reyes-Betancort, Alfredo
Carine, Mark A
Chapman, Mark A
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description Ecological isolation is increasingly thought to play an important role in speciation, especially for the origin and reproductive isolation of homoploid hybrid species. However, the extent to which divergent and/or transgressive gene expression changes are involved in speciation is not well studied. In this study, we employ comparative transcriptomics to investigate gene expression changes associated with the origin and evolution of two homoploid hybrid plant species, Argyranthemum sundingii and A. lemsii (Asteraceae). As there is no standard methodology for comparative transcriptomics, we examined five different pipelines for data assembly and analysing gene expression across the four species (two hybrid and two parental). We note biases and problems with all pipelines, and the approach used affected the biological interpretation of the data. Using the approach that we found to be optimal, we identify transcripts showing DE between the parental taxa and between the homoploid hybrid species and their parents; in several cases, putative functions of these DE transcripts have a plausible role in ecological adaptation and could be the cause or consequence of ecological speciation. Although independently derived, the homoploid hybrid species have converged on similar expression phenotypes, likely due to adaptation to similar habitats.
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spelling pubmed-105425032023-10-03 Comparative transcriptomics and gene expression divergence associated with homoploid hybrid speciation in Argyranthemum White, Oliver W Reyes-Betancort, Alfredo Carine, Mark A Chapman, Mark A G3 (Bethesda) Plant Genetics and Genomics Ecological isolation is increasingly thought to play an important role in speciation, especially for the origin and reproductive isolation of homoploid hybrid species. However, the extent to which divergent and/or transgressive gene expression changes are involved in speciation is not well studied. In this study, we employ comparative transcriptomics to investigate gene expression changes associated with the origin and evolution of two homoploid hybrid plant species, Argyranthemum sundingii and A. lemsii (Asteraceae). As there is no standard methodology for comparative transcriptomics, we examined five different pipelines for data assembly and analysing gene expression across the four species (two hybrid and two parental). We note biases and problems with all pipelines, and the approach used affected the biological interpretation of the data. Using the approach that we found to be optimal, we identify transcripts showing DE between the parental taxa and between the homoploid hybrid species and their parents; in several cases, putative functions of these DE transcripts have a plausible role in ecological adaptation and could be the cause or consequence of ecological speciation. Although independently derived, the homoploid hybrid species have converged on similar expression phenotypes, likely due to adaptation to similar habitats. Oxford University Press 2023-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC10542503/ /pubmed/37477910 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad158 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Genetics Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Plant Genetics and Genomics
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Comparative transcriptomics and gene expression divergence associated with homoploid hybrid speciation in Argyranthemum
title Comparative transcriptomics and gene expression divergence associated with homoploid hybrid speciation in Argyranthemum
title_full Comparative transcriptomics and gene expression divergence associated with homoploid hybrid speciation in Argyranthemum
title_fullStr Comparative transcriptomics and gene expression divergence associated with homoploid hybrid speciation in Argyranthemum
title_full_unstemmed Comparative transcriptomics and gene expression divergence associated with homoploid hybrid speciation in Argyranthemum
title_short Comparative transcriptomics and gene expression divergence associated with homoploid hybrid speciation in Argyranthemum
title_sort comparative transcriptomics and gene expression divergence associated with homoploid hybrid speciation in argyranthemum
topic Plant Genetics and Genomics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10542503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37477910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad158
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