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The Spatial Signature of Introgression After a Biological Invasion With Hybridization

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Quilodrán, Claudio S., Tsoupas, Alexandros, Currat, Mathias·2020·Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

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The accumulation of genome-wide molecular data has emphasized the important role of hybridization in the evolution of many organisms, which may carry introgressed genomic segments resulting from past admixture events with other taxa. Despite a number of examples of hybridization occurring during biological invasions, the resulting spatial patterns of genomic introgression remain poorly understood. Preliminary simulation studies have suggested a heterogeneous spatial level of introgression for invasive taxa after range expansion. We investigated in detail the robustness of this pattern and its persistence over time for both invasive and local organisms. Using spatially explicit simulations, we explored the spatial distribution of introgression across the area of colonization of an invasive taxon hybridizing with a local taxon. The general pattern for neutral loci supported by our results is an increasing introgression of local genes into the invasive taxon with the increase in the distance from the source of the invasion and a decreasing introgression of invasive genes into the local taxon. However, we also show there is some variation in this general trend depending on the scenario investigated. Spatial heterogeneity of introgression within a given taxon is thus an expected neutral pattern in structured populations after a biological invasion with a low to moderate amount of hybridization. We further show that this pattern is consistent with published empirical observations. Using additional simulations, we argue that the spatial pattern of Neanderthal introgression in modern humans, which has been documented to be higher in Asia than in Europe, can be explained by a model of hybridization with Neanderthals in Eurasia during the range expansion of modern humans from Africa. Our results support the view that weak hybridization during range expansion may explain spatially heterogeneous introgression patterns without the need to invoke selection.

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  • As hunter-gatherers spread over Europe, their Neanderthal introgression levels increased because of a combination of stochastic demographic and migratory processes related to gene dilution and gene surfing, which explain the spatial gradients of Neanderthal ancestry observed in hunter-gatherers.

    “According to the expansion hypothesis (19), as HGs spread over Europe, their NE introgression levels increased because of a combination of stochastic demographic and migratory processes related to gene dilution (20, 31, 39) and gene surfing (22, 23), which explain the spatial gradients of NE ancestry observed in HGs (Fig. 5).”

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  • Computational simulations showed that range expansion could explain the difference in Neanderthal ancestry between Europe and East Asia based on contemporary genomic information from the two extreme sides of Eurasia.

    “Computational simulations showed that the process of range expansion could explain the difference in NE ancestry between Europe and East Asia based on contemporary genomic information from the two extreme sides of Eurasia (west and east) (19).”
  • The analysis does not support the hypothesis that the slightly higher Neanderthal ancestry in East Asia than in western Europe today could be explained by the greater distance to the source of modern human expansion in Asia than in Europe.

    “However, our analysis does not support the hypothesis that a slightly higher level of NE ancestry in East Asia than in western Europe today could be explained by the greater distance to the source of the MH expansion in Asia than in Europe (19).”
  • During the out-of-Africa expansion, hunter-gatherers accumulated Neanderthal introgression as they expanded.

    “During the OOA, HGs accumulated NE introgression as they expanded, in accordance with the range expansion hypothesis (19).”

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Authors
Quilodrán, C. S., Tsoupas, A., & Currat, M.
Affiliations
University of Geneva (CH)
Corresponding author
Quilodrán, Claudio S.
Venue
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Published
2020-09-29
Volume
8
ISSN
2296-701X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3090887809
Cited by
31
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94
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2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 9
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3.08
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Language
en
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Funders
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (31003A_182577)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
Keywords
introgression, hybridization, biological invasions, range expansion, Neanderthal introgression, modern human evolution, spatially explicit simulation, admixture, structured populations, neutral loci

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