Large-scale phylogeographic study of the cosmopolitan aphid pest Brachycaudus helichrysi reveals host plant associated lineages that evolved in allopatry
2017
Popkin, Megan | Piffaretti, Joséphine | Clamens, Anne Laure | Qiao, Ge-Xia | Chen, Jing | Vitalis, Renaud | Vanlerberghe-Masutti, Flavie | Gupta, Rakesh K. | Lamaari, Malik | Langella, Olivier | Coeur d'Acier, Armelle | Jousselin, Emmanuelle | Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations (UMR CBGP) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Occitanie])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro) | Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) | Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology ; Partenaires INRAE | Batna University | Génétique Quantitative et Evolution - Le Moulon (Génétique Végétale) (GQE-Le Moulon) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-AgroParisTech-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. Many cosmopolitan plant-eating insect species comprise reproductively isolated population clusters that exhibit contrasting biological (e.g. life cycle) and ecological (e.g. host plant association) characteristics. Phylogeographical studies can untangle such complexities and shed light on the evolutionary forces that drove the divergence between population clusters. In the present study, we investigated the phylogeography of the leaf curl plum aphid (Brachycaudus helichrysi), a cosmopolitan pest of Prunus orchards. Using a combination of DNA markers on a set of specimens sampled worldwide, we confirmed the existence of two main lineages (H1 and H2), with differing life cycles. H1 is a sexually reproducing lineage found across the Holarctic on plum trees, whereas H2 consists of globally distributed asexual lineages and few sexual populations that are restricted to West Asia and use peach trees as primary hosts. We further characterized a third lineage (H3), restricted to East Asia, which is associated with apricot trees and Prunus species that are endemic to this region. The divergence of the lineages postdates the speciation of associated Prunus species but precedes their domestication. Our results suggest that, in B. helichrysi, the differentiation between host-specific lineages initially started in geographically isolated populations, which subsequently each adapted to local Prunus species. (C) 2016 The Linnean Society of London
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