scholarly journals Highly restricted gene flow between disjunct populations of the skunk clownfish (Amphiprion akallopisos) in the Indian Ocean

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. e12357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filip Huyghe ◽  
Marc Kochzius
Keyword(s):  
Gene Flow ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Restricted Gene Flow ◽  
Disjunct Populations ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Amphiprion Akallopisos

scholarly journals Independent evolution of intermediate bill widths in a seabird clade

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan F. Masello ◽  
Peter G. Ryan ◽  
Lara D. Shepherd ◽  
Petra Quillfeldt ◽  
Yves Cherel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Flow ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
Hybrid Speciation ◽  
Interspecific Gene Flow ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Homoploid Hybrid ◽  
Incomplete Reproductive Isolation

AbstractInterspecific introgression can occur between species that evolve rapidly within an adaptive radiation. Pachyptila petrels differ in bill size and are characterised by incomplete reproductive isolation, leading to interspecific gene flow. Salvin’s prion (Pachyptila salvini), whose bill width is intermediate between broad-billed (P. vittata) and Antarctic (P. desolata) prions, evolved through homoploid hybrid speciation. MacGillivray’s prion (P. macgillivrayi), known from a single population on St Paul (Indian Ocean), has a bill width intermediate between salvini and vittata and could also be the product of interspecies introgression or hybrid speciation. Recently, another prion population phenotypically similar to macgillivrayi was discovered on Gough (Atlantic Ocean), where it breeds 3 months later than vittata. The similarity in bill width between the medium-billed birds on Gough and macgillivrayi suggest that they could be closely related. In this study, we used genetic and morphological data to infer the phylogenetic position and evolutionary history of P. macgillivrayi and the Gough medium-billed prion relative other Pachyptila taxa, to determine whether species with medium bill widths evolved through common ancestry or convergence. We found that Gough medium-billed prions belong to the same evolutionary lineage as macgillivrayi, representing a new population of MacGillivray’s prion that originated through a colonisation event from St Paul. We show that macgillivrayi’s medium bill width evolved through divergence (genetic drift) and independently from that of salvini, which evolved through hybridisation (gene flow). This represents the independent convergence towards a similarly medium-billed phenotype. The newly discovered MacGillivray’s prion population on Gough is of utmost conservation relevance, as the relict macgillivrayi population in the Indian Ocean is very small.

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