{"id":17,"date":"2017-11-16T19:06:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T00:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2020-11-02T15:36:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T20:36:56","slug":"population-genomics-of-range-expansion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/research\/population-genomics-of-range-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral Range Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the ways in which corals can respond to warming oceans is to increase their ranges to higher latitudes. We are examining the population genomic patterns of Acropora hyacinthus<\/em> at their range edge surrounding mainland Japan and nearby populations in the subtropical Ryukyus islands. A distinct temperature gradient exists between these two regions; minimum weekly winter sea surface temperature (SST) doesn\u2019t go below 18\u00b0 C (lower thermal limit for coral reef establishment) in the subtropics, but range edge populations experience lower temperatures. Waters in this region have been warming at ~0.5\u00b0C per decade, which has caused macroalgal-to-coral shifts. Several sites at high latitudes that had no coral colonies 40 years ago are now dominated by Acropora hyacinthus<\/em> offering a unique opportunity to investigate coral range expansion.
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Photo taken in 2016 of a site in Japan that had zero coral colonies forty years ago (Yasuda).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

This project is being led by PhD candidate James Fifer<\/a>. In collaboration with the Yasuda Lab at Miyazaki University<\/a>, we have collected A. hyacinthus<\/em> at several sites in this region, including one of the recently expanded sites (Amakusa). We use 2bRAD-seq<\/a> to target a subset of the genome, which provides us with single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that can be used to explore population structure, demographic history, signatures of selection and basic population genetic statistics. <\/p>\n

We are investigating the following:
\n1) Presence of cryptic species and their delineation between temperate and subtropical environments
\n2) Population structure within the temperate region and possible adaptation to local climates
\n3) The genomic signature of range edge and recently expanded populations in corals<\/p>\n

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Left panel shows sampling sites including one (Amakusa) recently expanded site. Admixture plot and PCA (right panel) show separation into three strongly differentiated lineages and population structure within the five northern sites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the ways in which corals can respond to warming oceans is to increase their ranges to higher latitudes. We are examining the population genomic patterns of Acropora hyacinthus at their range edge surrounding mainland Japan and nearby populations in the subtropical Ryukyus islands. A distinct temperature gradient exists between these two regions; minimum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14068,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/895"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/davieslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}