Urbanization drives adaptive evolution in a Neotropical bird
作者机构：National Institute of Science and Technology in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution(INCT IN-TREE)Instituto de BiologiaUniversidade Federal da Bahia40170-115 SalvadorBahiaBrazil
出 版 物：《Current Zoology》 (动物学报（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2023年第69卷第5期
页 面：607-619页
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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 071002[理学-动物学]
基 金：We would like to thank the following organizations for providing funds for this study:FAPESB(RED0045/2014,JCB0026/2016) CNPq(443249/2014-8,465767/2014-1) CAPES(23038.000776/2017-54)
主 题：behavioral adaptation phenotypic plasticity selection selective sweep South America
摘 要：Urbanization has dramatic impacts on natural habitats and such changes may potentially drive local adaptation of urban *** change has been specifically shown to facilitate the fast adaptation of birds to changing environments,but few studies have investigated the genetic mechanisms of this *** investigations could provide insights into questions about both evolutionary theory and management of urban *** this study,we investigated whether local adaptation has occurred in urban populations of a Neotropical bird species,Coereba flaveola,specifically addressing whether observed behavioral adaptations are correlated to genetic signatures of natural *** answer this question,we sampled 24 individuals in urban and rural environments,and searched for selected loci through a genome-scan approach based on RADseq genomic data,generated and assembled using a reference genome for the *** recovered 46 loci as putative selection outliers,and 30 of them were identified as associated with biological processes possibly related to urban adaptation,such as the regulation of energetic metabolism,regulation of genetic expression,and changes in the immunological ***,genes involved in the development of the nervous system showed signatures of selection,suggesting a link between behavioral and genetic *** findings,in conjunction with similar results in previous studies,support the idea that cities provide a similar selective pressure on urban populations and that behavioral plasticity may be enhanced through genetic changes in urban populations.
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