Green, yellow or black? Genetic differentiation and adaptation signatures in a highly migratory marine turtle (doi:10.34691/FK2/RJZUFC)

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Title:

Green, yellow or black? Genetic differentiation and adaptation signatures in a highly migratory marine turtle

Identification Number:

doi:10.34691/FK2/RJZUFC

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Repositorio de datos de investigación de la Universidad de Chile

Date of Distribution:

2021-03-30

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1

Bibliographic Citation:

Alvarez-Varas, Rocío; Rojas-Hernández, Noemi; Heidemeyer, Maike; Riginos, Cynthia; Benitez, Hugo; Araya-Donoso, Raul; Resendiz, Eduardo; Lara-Uc, Monica; Godoy, Daniel; Muñoz, Juan Pablo; Alarcon-Ruales, Daniela; Alfaro-Shigueto, Joanna; Ortiz-Alvarez, Clara; Mangel, Jeffrey; Vianna, Juliana; Veliz, David, 2021, "Green, yellow or black? Genetic differentiation and adaptation signatures in a highly migratory marine turtle", https://doi.org/10.34691/FK2/RJZUFC, Repositorio de datos de investigación de la Universidad de Chile, V1

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Green, yellow or black? Genetic differentiation and adaptation signatures in a highly migratory marine turtle

Identification Number:

doi:10.34691/FK2/RJZUFC

Authoring Entity:

Alvarez-Varas, Rocío (Universidad de Chile)

Rojas-Hernández, Noemi (Universidad de Chile)

Heidemeyer, Maike (Universidad de Costa Rica)

Riginos, Cynthia (University of Queensland)

Benitez, Hugo (Universidad de Concepción)

Araya-Donoso, Raul (Arizona State University)

Resendiz, Eduardo (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur)

Lara-Uc, Monica (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur)

Godoy, Daniel (Massey University)

Muñoz, Juan Pablo (Universidad San Francisco de Quito)

Alarcon-Ruales, Daniela (Universidad San Francisco de Quito)

Alfaro-Shigueto, Joanna (University of Exeter)

Ortiz-Alvarez, Clara (ProDelphinus)

Mangel, Jeffrey (University of Exeter)

Vianna, Juliana (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Veliz, David (Universidad de Chile)

Distributor:

Repositorio de datos de investigación de la Universidad de Chile

Access Authority:

Rocío Alvarez-Varas

Access Authority:

Veliz, David

Depositor:

Veliz, David

Date of Deposit:

2021-03-30

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.34691/FK2/RJZUFC

Study Scope

Keywords:

Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chelonia mydas, genetic structure, candidate genes, melanism, Eastern Pacific, conservation genomics

Abstract:

Marine species may exhibit genetic structure accompanied by phenotypic differentiation related to adaptation despite their high mobility. The genetic differentiation between green turtle (Chelonia mydas) Pacific shape-based morphotypes (south-central/western or yellow turtle and north-central/eastern or black turtle) and the adaptation of the black turtle to environmentally contrasting conditions of the Eastern Pacific region have remained a mystery for decades. Here we addressed both questions using a reduced-representation genome approach (Dartseq; 9,473 neutral SNPs) and identifying candidate outlier loci (67 outlier SNPs) of biological relevance between shape-based morphotypes from eight Pacific foraging grounds (n=158). Our results support genetic divergence between morphotypes, probably arising from strong natal homing behavior. Genes and enriched biological functions linked to thermoregulation, hypoxia, melanism, morphogenesis,osmoregulation, diet and reproduction were found to be outliers for differentiation, providing evidence for adaptation of C. mydas to the eastern Pacific region and suggesting independent evolutionary trajectories of the shape-based morphotypes. Our findings support the evolutionary distinctness of the enigmatic black turtle (north-central/eastern morphotype) and provide a framework for adaptive research and conservation genomics in long-lived and highly mobile vertebrates.

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SNPs data of Figure 2. Clustering analyses based on the neutral dataset (9,473 SNPs) of Chelonia mydas, including individuals from eight Pacific foraging grounds. a) Principal coordinate analysis-PCoA, b) Discriminant analysis of principal components-DAPC and c) STRUCTURE analysis according to the Pacific shape-based morphotypes at K=2, K=3, and K=4. All analyses favored K=2 represented by both shape-based morphotypes.

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