Evolutionary history of almond tree domestication in the Mediterranean basin

Delplancke Malou, Alvarez Nadir, Benoit Laure, Espindola Anahi, Joly Hélène, Neuenschwander Samuel, Arrigo Nils. 2013. Evolutionary history of almond tree domestication in the Mediterranean basin. Molecular Ecology, 22 (4) : 1092-1104.

https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12129

Article de revue ; Article de revue à facteur d'impact

Version publiée - Anglais
Accès réservé aux personnels Cirad
Utilisation soumise à autorisation de l'auteur ou du Cirad.
mec12129.pdf
Télécharger (1MB) | Demander une copie

Url - jeu de données - Entrepôt autre : https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.g416t

Quartile : Q1, Sujet : ECOLOGY / Quartile : Q1, Sujet : EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY / Quartile : Q1, Sujet : BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Liste HCERES des revues (en SHS) : oui

Thème(s) HCERES des revues (en SHS) : Psychologie-éthologie-ergonomie

Résumé : Genetic diversity of contemporary domesticated species is shaped by both natural and human-driven processes. However, until now, little is known about how domestication has imprinted the variation of fruit tree species. In this study, we reconstruct the recent evolutionary history of the domesticated almond tree, Prunus dulcis, around the Mediterranean basin, using a combination of nuclear and chloroplast microsatellites [i.e. simple sequence repeat (SSRs)] to investigate patterns of genetic diversity. Whereas conservative chloroplast SSRs show a widespread haplotype and rare locally distributed variants, nuclear SSRs show a pattern of isolation by distance with clines of diversity from the East to the West of the Mediterranean basin, while Bayesian genetic clustering reveals a substantial longitudinal genetic structure. Both kinds of markers thus support a single domestication event, in the eastern side of the Mediterranean basin. In addition, model-based estimation of the timing of genetic divergence among those clusters is estimated sometime during the Holocene, a result that is compatible with human-mediated dispersal of almond tree out of its centre of origin. Still, the detection of region-specific alleles suggests that gene flow from relictual wild preglacial populations (in North Africa) or from wild counterparts (in the Near East) could account for a fraction of the diversity observed.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : Prunus dulcis, domestication, biodiversité, variation génétique, zone méditerranéenne, marqueur génétique, chloroplaste, adaptation physiologique, distribution géographique, flux de gènes, dynamique des populations, méthode statistique, biogéographie