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DOI	10.1073/pnas.2012398118
	The evolution of ancestral and species-specific adaptations in snowfinches at the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau
	Qu Y.; Chen C.; Chen X.; Hao Y.; She H.; Wang M.; Ericson P.G.P.; Lin H.; Cai T.; Song G.; Jia C.; Chen C.; Zhang H.; Li J.; Liang L.; Wu T.; Zhao J.; Gao Q.; Zhang G.; Zhai W.; Zhang C.; Zhang Y.E.; Lei F.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	00278424
卷号	118 期号:13
英文摘要	Species in a shared environment tend to evolve similar adaptations under the influence of their phylogenetic context. Using snowfinches, a monophyletic group of passerine birds (Passeridae), we study the relative roles of ancestral and species-specific adaptations to an extreme high-elevation environment, the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Our ancestral trait reconstruction shows that the ancestral snowfinch occupied high elevations and had a larger body mass than most nonsnowfinches in Passeridae. Subsequently, this phenotypic adaptation diversified in the descendant species. By comparing high-quality genomes from representatives of the three phylogenetic lineages, we find that about 95% of genes under positive selection in the descendant species are different from those in the ancestor. Consistently, the biological functions enriched for these species differ from those of their ancestor to various degrees (semantic similarity values ranging from 0.27 to 0.5), suggesting that the three descendant species have evolved divergently from the initial adaptation in their common ancestor. Using a functional assay to a highly selective gene, DTL, we demonstrate that the nonsynonymous substitutions in the ancestor and descendant species have improved the repair capacity of ultraviolet-induced DNA damage. The repair kinetics of the DTL gene shows a twofold to fourfold variation across the ancestor and the descendants. Collectively, this study reveals an exceptional case of adaptive evolution to high-elevation environments, an evolutionary process with an initial adaptation in the common ancestor followed by adaptive diversification of the descendant species. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Common ancestry; Comparative genomics; DTL; High-elevation adaptations; Snowfinches
语种	英语
scopus关键词	article; comparative genomics; DNA damage; kinetics; monophyly; nonhuman; Passeridae; progeny; Tibet; ultraviolet radiation
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/180088
作者单位	Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China; BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518084, China; College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China; Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, SE-104 05, Sweden; BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China; State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650223, China; Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650223, China; Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK-2100, Denmark; Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing, 102206, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Qu Y.,Chen C.,Chen X.,等. The evolution of ancestral and species-specific adaptations in snowfinches at the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau[J],2021,118(13).
APA	Qu Y..,Chen C..,Chen X..,Hao Y..,She H..,...&Lei F..(2021).The evolution of ancestral and species-specific adaptations in snowfinches at the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(13).
MLA	Qu Y.,et al."The evolution of ancestral and species-specific adaptations in snowfinches at the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.13(2021).