Multifactorial genetic divergence processes drive the onset of speciation in an Amazonian fish

Jardim De Queiroz, Luiz; Torrente-Vilara, Gislene; Quilodran, Claudio; Rodrigues da Costa Doria, Carolina; Montoya Burgos, Juan Ignacio

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0189349

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Title		Multifactorial genetic divergence processes drive the onset of speciation in an Amazonian fish
Authors		Jardim De Queiroz, Luiz Torrente-Vilara, Gislene Quilodran, Claudio Rodrigues da Costa Doria, Carolina Montoya Burgos, Juan Ignacio
Published in		PLOS ONE. 2017, vol. 12, no. 12, p. e0189349
Abstract		Understanding the processes that drive population genetic divergence in the Amazon is challenging because of the vast scale, the environmental richness and the outstanding biodiversity of the region. We addressed this issue by determining the genetic structure of the widespread Amazonian common sardine fish Triportheus albus (Characidae). We then examined the influence, on this species, of all previously proposed population-structuring factors, including isolation-by-distance, isolation-by-barrier (the Teotônio Falls) and isolation-by-environment using variables that describe floodplain and water characteristics. The population genetics analyses revealed an unusually strong structure with three geographical groups: Negro/Tapajós rivers, Lower Madeira/Central Amazon, and Upper Madeira. Distance-based redundancy analyses showed that the optimal model for explaining the extreme genetic structure contains all proposed structuring factors and accounts for up to 70% of the genetic structure. We further quantified the contribution of each factor via a variance-partitioning analysis. Our results demonstrate that multiple factors, often proposed as individual drivers of population divergence, have acted in conjunction to divide T. albus into three genetic lineages. Because the conjunction of multiple long-standing population-structuring processes may lead to population reproductive isolation, that is, the onset of speciation, we suggest that the multifactorial population-structuring processes highlighted in this study could account for the high speciation rate characterising the Amazon Basin.
Keywords		Animals — Characidae/classification/genetics — DNA Barcoding — Taxonomic — Haplotypes — Phylogeny — South America — Species Specificity
Identifiers		DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189349 PMID: 29261722
Full text		Article (Published version) (4.6 MB) - Free access Other version: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0189349
Structures		Faculté des sciences / Section de biologie / Département de génétique et évolution
Research group		Groupe Montoya
Project		FNS: 3100A0- 104005
Citation (ISO format)		JARDIM DE QUEIROZ, Luiz et al. Multifactorial genetic divergence processes drive the onset of speciation in an Amazonian fish. In: PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, n° 12, p. e0189349. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189349 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:107470