Phylogenomics analyses of all species of Swordtails (GenusXiphophorus) highlights hybridization precedes speciation

Author:

Du Kang,Lu Yuan,Garcia-Olazabal Mateo,Walter Ronald B.,Warren Wesley C.,Dodge Tristram,Schumer Molly,Park Hyun,Meyer Axel,Schartl Manfred

Abstract

AbstractHybridization has been recognized as an important driving force for evolution, however studies of the genetic consequence and its cause are still lagging behind in vertebrates due to the lack of appropriate experimental systems. Fish of the central American genusXiphophoruswere proposed to have evolved with multiple ancient and ongoing hybridization events, and served as a valuable research model in evolutionary biology and in biomedical research on human disease for more than a century. Here, we provide the complete genome resource and its annotation of all 26Xiphophorusspecies. On this dataset we resolved the so far conflicting phylogeny. Through comparative genomic analyses we investigated the molecular evolution of genes related to melanoma, for a main sexually selected trait and for the genetic control of puberty timing, which are predicted to be involved in pre-and postzygotic isolation and thus to influence the probability of interspecific hybridization inXiphophorus. We demonstrate dramatic size-variation of some gene families across species, despite the reticulate evolution and short divergence time. Finally, we clarify the hybridization history in the genusXiphophorusgenus, settle the long dispute on the hybridization origin of two Southern swordtails, highlight hybridizations precedes speciation, and reveal the distribution of hybridization ancestry remaining in the fused genome.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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