Selective Sweeps Lead to Evolutionary Success in an Amazonian Hyperdominant Palm

• Published in: Frontiers in genetics Vol. 11; p. 596662
• Main Authors: Melo, Warita A., Vieira, Lucas D., Novaes, Evandro, Bacon, Christine D., Collevatti, Rosane G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 23.12.2020
• Subjects: adaptation; adaptive trait; Arecaceae; Biologi; Biological Sciences; complex; DNA-sequence; Genetics; Genetics & Heredity; genomics; history; local adaptation; Mauritia flexuosa; neutral evolution; Population Genomics; population-genetics; single nucleotide polymorphism; software; target sequence capture; Arecaceae; neutral evolution; adaptation; Population Genomics; target sequence capture; Mauritia flexuosa

Despite the global importance of tropical ecosystems, few studies have identified how natural selection has shaped their megadiversity. Here, we test for the role of adaptation in the evolutionary success of the widespread, highly abundant Neotropical palm Mauritia flexuosa. We used a genome scan fr...