title: Genome-wide patterns of adaptation to temperate environments associated with transposable elements in Drosophila.
abstract: Investigating spatial patterns of loci under selection can give insight into how populations evolved in response to selective pressures and can provide monitoring tools for detecting the impact of environmental changes on populations. Drosophila is a particularly good model to study adaptation to environmental heterogeneity since it is a tropical species that originated in sub-Saharan Africa and has only recently colonized the rest of the world. There is strong evidence for the adaptive role of Transposable Elements (TEs) in the evolution of Drosophila, and TEs might play an important role specifically in adaptation to temperate climates. In this work, we analyzed the frequency of a set of putatively adaptive and putatively neutral TEs in populations with contrasting climates that were collected near the endpoints of two known latitudinal clines in Australia and North America. The contrasting results obtained for putatively adaptive and putatively neutral TEs and the consistency of the patterns between continents strongly suggest that putatively adaptive TEs are involved in adaptation to temperate climates. We integrated information on population behavior, possible environmental selective agents, and both molecular and functional information of the TEs and their nearby genes to infer the plausible phenotypic consequences of these insertions. We conclude that adaptation to temperate environments is widespread in Drosophila and that TEs play a significant role in this adaptation. It is remarkable that such a diverse set of TEs located next to a diverse set of genes are consistently adaptive to temperate climate-related factors. We argue that reverse population genomic analyses, as the one described in this work, are necessary to arrive at a comprehensive picture of adaptation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America. jgonzalp@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Josefa
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: González
authors.forename: Talia L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Karasov
authors.forename: Philipp W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Messer
authors.forename: Dmitri A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Petrov
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements / Q000235:genetics*; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D017344:Genes, Insect; D005828:Genetics, Population; D049750:Genome, Insect; D010641:Phenotype; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements
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