Affiliation:
1. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
Abstract
Adaptive convergent evolution, which refers to the same or similar phenotypes produced by
species from independent lineages under similar selective pressures, has been widely examined for a
long time. Accumulating studies on the adaptive convergent evolution have been reported from many
different perspectives (cellular, anatomical, morphological, physiological, biochemical, and behavioral).
Recent advances in the genomic technologies have demonstrated that adaptive convergence can
arise from specific genetic mechanisms in different hierarchies, ranging from the same nucleotide or
amino acid substitutions to the biological functions or pathways. Among these genetic mechanisms,
the same amino acid changes in protein-coding genes play an important role in adaptive phenotypic
convergence. Methods for detecting adaptive convergence at the protein sequence level have been
constantly debated and developed. Here, we review recent progress on using genomic approaches to
evaluate the genetic mechanisms of adaptive convergent evolution, summarize the research methods
for identifying adaptive amino acid convergence, and discuss the future perspectives for researching
adaptive convergent evolution.
Funder
State Key Program of NSFC
Strategic Priority Research Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publisher
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
Subject
Genetics(clinical),Genetics
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