Conservation genetics: studying genetic

1. Maria Eugenia D’Amato Conservation genetics:studying genetic

2. Methodological approaches to the study of genetic diversity • Molecular genetics techniques • Types and properties of molecular makers • Factors that determine the patterns of genetic variation

3. Molecular techniques • Southern blot • PCR • DNA sequencing

4. Southern blot (1977) • Fragmentation of genomic • DNA in a reproducible way • 2. Separation of the fragments • in an electric field • 3. Transfer of the fragments from gel to • a membrane • 4. Probing of the membrane with known DNA • 5. Detection of the probe Sir Edwin Southern 1938- Nobel Price

5. Southern blot Restriction enzymes molecular scissors Southern blot steps

6. DNA fingerprinting Multilocus Trout DNA digested with Hinf I Unilocus (GATA)4 (GGAT)4 homozygote heterozygote

7. RFLPsRestriction Fragment Length Polymorphism. mtDNA PCR 500 250 500 bp Restriction site

8. PCR (1981) • Polymerase Chain Reaction • In vitro replication of DNA Kary Mullis 1938- Nobel Price 1993

9. PCR • DNA Copies = 2n, n = number of cycles • After 30 cycles: 107 million copies PCR machines

10. Applications of PCR:microsatellite genotyping priming site      ♂ ♀ priming site x Pedigree analysis

11. Applications of PCRmicrosatellites for mating strategies Polyembryony in bryozoans? Incubating chamber

12. Applications of PCR. Anonymous loci AFLPs (Amplified Random Length Polymorphism) RAPDs (Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA) Dominant multilocus biallelic markers

13. DNA sequencing The old days…. Automatic sequencing A C G T CTCCGGCTGTAACCTTCAC…

14. Molecular Markers • Physical location in a genome whose inheritance can be monitored • polymorphic Parentage, relatedness, mating systems • Individual identification • Genic variation • Gene genealogies Gene flow, drift Phylogeography, speciation, deeper phylogenies

15. Genes in populations N N A p = 0.6 a p = 0.4 A a A a Aa AA pq A p = 0.6 p2 0.24 0.36 aa a p = 0.4 Aa pq q2 0.24 0.16

16. (p + q) 2 = p2 + 2pq + q2 Genes in populations:equilibrium of Hardy Weinberg p = freq A q = freq a the organism is diploid with sexual reproduction generations are non overlapping loci are biallelic allele frequencies are identical in males and females random mating population size is infinite no migration, no mutation, no selection Assumptions

17. Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium Consequences of the model • Allele frequencies remain constant, generation after generation • Genotype frequencies can be determined from allele frequencies

18. HWE- Mathematical example of deviation from equilibrium Expected genotype freqs In pop I: (0.6 + 0.4)2 = 0.62 + 2 x 0.6 x 0.4 + 0.42 = 0.36 + 0.48 + 0.16 2 = ∑ (O – E)2 2 = 44.4 d.f. = (R-1) x (C-1) = 2 2d.f =2 = 5.99 highly significant

19.          1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Departures from HWE:Selection Charles Darwin Differential survival and reproductive success of genotypes Balancing selection Frequency dependent selection Directional selection 0.5 f ACER Normal and sickling forms of erythrocytes Heliconius erato sites

20. Deviations from HWE:Genetic drift • 2dqp0 q02N = • Random variation of allele frequencies • generation after generation • Generated by the random sampling process • of drawing gametes to form the next generation dq = q1 – q0 • Alleles become fixed (freq = 1) or lost (freq = 0) • The effect is more pronounced • in small populations • Genetic diversity decreases Variance in 1 generation

21. Genetic drift:Bottlenecks   Original population                                    Population crash    recovery Cheetah: Late Pleistocene bottleneck American bison: Over hunting bottleneck

22. Genetic drift:Founder effect                                   1 couple carrying the allele immigrated SA in 1688 Today: 30 000 descendant South Africans are affected Skin photo-sensitivity in a porphyria patient

23. HWE departure/restorationMigration Migration = Gene flow transfer of alleles from one gene pool to another After m, 80% of the island is A1A1 and 20%A2A2 m Genotypes out of HWE A1A1 = 1 After 1 generation genotypes are in HWE A2A2 = 1

24. non random mating- drift – no gene flow Population structure • Differential allele frequencies between subpopulations • inbreeding coefficients : measure of H deficiency at • different hierarchical levels • Wahlund effect: H deficiency due to subdivision, drift • and inbreeding FIS = (Hs – Ho) / Ho within a subpopulation FIT = (HT – H0) / HT among individuals overall populations FST = (HS – HT) / HT between subpopulations Ho = aver. observed H within a subpopulation over loci Hs = aver. expected H within subpopulation over loci Ht = aver. expected H overall

25. Examples of population structure 1 Out of HWE 2 In HWE

26. Gene genealogies: a historical perspective Lineage: individuals or taxa related by a common ancestor Phylogenetic tree

27. Diversity with uniparental markers n haplotypes Haplotype diversity h = Total n individuals Nucleotide diversity n Σ xixjpij p = n -1

28. Phylogeography Population bottlenecks, expansions Gene flow Study of geographic distribution of lineages

29. Evolutionarily Significant Units (ESUs) Waples 1991: populations that are reproductively separate from other populations and have unique or different adaptations. Moritz 1994: populations that are reciprocally monophyletic for mtDNA alleles and show significant divergence of allele frequencies at nuclear loci. Crandall et al 2000 ecological exchangeability genetic exchangeability Reciprocal monophyly

30. Gene flow and phylogeographyAgama atra in Southern Africa Phylogeographic reconstruction: Cytochrome b (540 bp) 16S rDNA (476 bp)

31. Phylogeography of Agama atra MP tree ML tree

32. Phylogeography of Agama atraCoincident pattern with other rock-dwelling species Pronolagus rupestris Pachydactilus rugosus Vicariant event cycles of dry-humid period during glacial –interglacial produced fragmentation of habitat

33. 2.a. Gene flow between species: the problem of hybridsTilapias O. niloticus O. aureus Hybrids in the wild?

34. Tilapias hybridization Cluster of population Nuclear Mitochondrial O.aureus * Nile Niger Cluster of haplotypes Senegal * Haplotypes common to both species

35. Tilapias hybridization • Main results • shallow mtDNA divergence between species in Sudano- Sahelian zone • large divergence between Nile- western Africa Retention of ancestral polymorphisms? Secondary contact + introgression? hypotheses

36. 2.b. Tilapias hybridization in South Africa O. mortimeri O. karongae O. andersonii Parsimony network of mtDNA control region O. mossambicus

37. 3. Phylogeny of Abalone with nuclear sequences Haliotidae Fissurellidae Orthologs ~ 65% identity 260 MY 350 MY paralogs Duplication event

38. Phylogeny of abalones 65 % identity orthologs 80-95 % identity orthologs paralogs

39. 4. Population structure- introduced forms Chinese threeline grunt Japanese samples Population structure analysis with 4 microsatellites loci significant

40. Population structure in the threeline Chinese grunt Pairwise Fst between populations significant