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The genome of the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata, and variation in the Guanapo population

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posted on 2023-06-09, 04:35 authored by Axel Künstner, Margarete Hoffmann, Bonnie A Fraser, Verena A Kottler, Eshita Sharma, Detlef Weigel, Christine Dreyer
For over a century, the live bearing guppy, Poecilia reticulata, has been used to study sexual selection as well as local adaptation. Natural guppy populations differ in many traits that are of intuitively adaptive significance such as ornamentation, age at maturity, brood size and body shape. Water depth, light supply, food resources and predation regime shape these traits, and barrier waterfalls often separate contrasting environments in the same river. We have assembled and annotated the genome of an inbred single female from a high-preda- tion site in the Guanapo drainage. The final assembly comprises 731.6 Mb with a scaffold N50 of 5.3 MB. Scaffolds were mapped to linkage groups, placing 95% of the genome assembly on the 22 autosomes and the X-chromosome. To investigate genetic variation in the population used for the genome assembly, we sequenced 10 wild caught male individu- als. The identified 5 million SNPs correspond to an average nucleotide diversity (p) of 0.0025. The genome assembly and SNP map provide a rich resource for investigating adap- tation to different predation regimes. In addition, comparisons with the genomes of other Poeciliid species, which differ greatly in mechanisms of sex determination and maternal resource allocation, as well as comparisons to other teleost genera can begin to reveal how live bearing evolved in teleost fish.

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PLoS ONE

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1932-6203

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Public Library of Science

Issue

12

Volume

11

Article number

e0169087

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  • Evolution, Behaviour and Environment Publications

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Legacy Posted Date

2017-01-05

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-01-05

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2017-01-05

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