Comparison of genetic differentiation at marker loci and quantitative traits

By J. Merilä, Peter Crnokrak. 2001

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Subfields: Genetics

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• Inheritance and Natural Selection on Functional Traits (2003, background): “Annual species may also have lower levels of heritable variation than perennials because their population sizes are often much more variable.”
• Bridging the gap between the genotype and the phenotype: linking genetic variation, selection and adaptation in fishes (2008, result): “2008); however, some published estimates of QST appear to reflect phenotypic and non-additive variation rather than additive genetic variation (Merilä and Crnokrak 2001; Goudet and Buchi 2006; Leinonen et al. 2008).”
• Epigenetics for ecologists. (2007, background): “Not only are ecologically important traits often genetically differentiated in natural populations (Linhart & Grant 1996; Mousseau et al. 2000; Merilä & Crnokrak 2001), there is also cumulating evidence that they can evolve rapidly (Thompson 1998; Hairston et al. 2005; Carroll et al. 2007).”
• Sexual selection and genital evolution (2014, background): “…between genetic divergence at neutral loci – FST – and divergence in quantitative traits – QST – can provide an indication of the rates of divergence in morphological traits (Brommer 2011; but see Merilä & Crnokrak 2001; McKay & Latta 2002; Whitlock 2008; Edelaar et al. 2011; Lamy et al. 2012).”
• THE MOLECULAR TOOLBOX: GENETIC TECHNIQUES IN WILDLIFE ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (2005, background): “For instance, measures of differentiation (FST) in neutral molecular markers are generally lower (4–91% in vertebrates) relative to measures for quantitative traits (QST), suggesting higher levels of differentiation among populations for quantitative traits (Merilä and Crnokrak 2001).”
• Spatial and temporal scales of adaptive divergence in marine fishes and the implications for conservation (2006, background): “Recent meta-analyses show that QST is almost always larger than FST and in some species the disparity is dramatic (Merilä & Crnokrak, 2001; McKay & Latta, 2002).”
• A comparative analysis of population structure of a forest tree, Eucalyptus globulus (Myrtaceae), using microsatellite markers and quantitative traits (2006, background): “Any significant difference between FSTof neutral markers andQSTestimated for the same set of populations (assumed to be in drift–migration equilibrium) is assumed to be attributable to the effects of natural selection (Merila and Crnokrak 2001).”
• Differences in morphology, performance and behaviour between recently diverged populations of Podarcis sicula mirror differences in predation pressure (2007, background): “On the other hand, characteristics studied are most likely polygenic, ecologically relevant traits, and therefore more likely to evolve through natural selection than under genetic drift (Merilä and Crnokrak 2001).”
• Genetic variation across species’ geographical ranges: the central–marginal hypothesis and beyond (2008, background): “The degree of concordance between putatively neutral variation at marker loci and quantitative genetic variation for physiological, morphological or lifehistory traits has been the subject of ongoing debate (e.g. Lewontin 1984; Fraser & Bernatchez 2001; Merilä & Crnokrak 2001; Reed & Frankham 2001).”