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1 November 2003 NATURAL SELECTION ON PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM IN THE RODENT GENUS PEROMYSCUS: EVIDENCE FROM INTERLOCUS CONTRASTS
Jay F. Storz, Michael W. Nachman
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Abstract

The effects of natural selection are generally locus-specific, whereas migration, drift, and inbreeding are expected to have relatively uniform effects across the entire genome. This suggests that multilocus surveys of multiple populations can be used to distinguish selection from demographic effects. The purpose of this study was to test for evidence of selection on protein polymorphism in natural populations of mice in the genus Peromyscus. We analyzed published data from geographic surveys of allozyme variation and used a coalescent-based simulation model to identify specific loci that deviated from neutral expectations. Observed FST values generally exhibited a remarkably close fit to the expected neutral distributions, indicating that the majority of loci are simply tracking stochastic demographic processes. A smaller number of loci exhibited highly significant departures from the expectations of the neutral model and thus appear to be tracking the direct or indirect effects of selection. Most departures from neutrality were characterized by FST values that far exceeded neutral expectations and were therefore attributable to spatially varying selection. Interestingly, the albumin locus was implicated as a candidate gene for local adaptation in four different species of Peromyscus. The results also demonstrate that selection can severely bias marker-based estimates of neutral parameters.

Jay F. Storz and Michael W. Nachman "NATURAL SELECTION ON PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM IN THE RODENT GENUS PEROMYSCUS: EVIDENCE FROM INTERLOCUS CONTRASTS," Evolution 57(11), 2628-2635, (1 November 2003). https://doi.org/10.1554/03-156
Received: 7 March 2003; Accepted: 30 May 2003; Published: 1 November 2003
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KEYWORDS
Adaptation
albumin
allozymes
coalescent
Lewontin-Krakauer test
mice
neutral theory
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