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1 September 2006 ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION IN THE EAST MAUI–ENDEMIC DUBAUTIA (ASTERACEAE) SPECIES
Elizabeth A. Friar, Linda M. Prince, Eric H. Roalson, Mitchell E. McGlaughlin, Jennifer M. Cruse-Sanders, Sarah J. De Groot, J. Mark Porter
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Abstract

Adaptive diversification can be viewed as a balance between the conservative force of interpopulation gene flow and selection for differential environments. In this paper, we examine ecological, morphological, and genetic differentiation in a small clade consisting of four East Maui–endemic species of Dubautia: D. menziesii, D. platyphylla, D. reticulata, and D. waianapanapaensis, in the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae). The East Maui clade is apparently recently derived (less than 1 million years ago) and is geographically restricted yet displays significant ecological and morphological differences. We used geographic data from historical herbarium specimens, measurements of plant architecture and leaf morphometrics, and measures of genetic differentiation in both microsatellite and nuclear coding loci to examine the correlation of different forms of divergence in this small species flock. We found overlap in large-scale geographic distributions, significant differentiation in most habitat factors, significant microsatellite differentiation, and many shared alleles at nuclear coding loci suggesting on-going lineage sorting. Despite the presence of apparent hybrids in some populations, microsatellite variation is consistent with isolation among species. Using Mantel tests, we compared the direction and extent of diversification among different datasets, to determine whether ecological/morphological divergence was correlated with genetic divergence. Correlations among different datasets showed that habitat was strongly correlated with plant architecture but not leaf morphology. Taken together, these results indicate that ecological and morphological diversification has driven genetic divergence at rapidly evolving microsatellite loci, whereas there is continuing lineage sorting at neutral sites in nuclear coding loci.

Elizabeth A. Friar, Linda M. Prince, Eric H. Roalson, Mitchell E. McGlaughlin, Jennifer M. Cruse-Sanders, Sarah J. De Groot, and J. Mark Porter "ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION IN THE EAST MAUI–ENDEMIC DUBAUTIA (ASTERACEAE) SPECIES," Evolution 60(9), 1777-1792, (1 September 2006). https://doi.org/10.1554/05-345.1
Received: 24 June 2005; Accepted: 28 June 2006; Published: 1 September 2006
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KEYWORDS
ecological speciation
gene flow
Hawaiian silversword alliance
lineage sorting
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