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Spatial autocorrelation of genotypes under directional selection.

B K Epperson1

  • 1Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside 92521.

Genetics
|March 1, 1990
PubMed
Summary

Directional selection significantly reduces genetic structure and spatial patterns in populations with limited dispersal. This finding impacts our understanding of genetic variation and natural selection in localized populations.

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Area of Science:

  • Population Genetics
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Spatial Ecology

Background:

  • Understanding genetic variation spatial distribution is crucial for population dynamics.
  • Limited dispersal can lead to distinct spatial genetic structures.
  • Selection-mutation equilibrium models are fundamental in evolutionary genetics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the spatial distributions of genetic variation under selection-mutation equilibrium with limited dispersal.
  • To quantify the impact of directional selection on genetic structure and spatial correlations.
  • To explore the effects of random processes on spatial and temporal genetic correlations.

Main Methods:

  • Modeling spatial distributions of genetic variation.
  • Analyzing genetic structure and spatial autocorrelations.
  • Simulating selection-mutation equilibrium with limited dispersal.
  • Investigating effects of mutation, immigration, and migration.

Main Results:

  • Moderate directional selection rapidly reduces genetic structure and spatial correlations compared to neutral loci.
  • Deleterious homozygotes form smaller patches (25-50 individuals) under selection, versus hundreds under neutrality.
  • Selection also decreases temporal genetic correlations.
  • Random replacement processes influence spatial and temporal correlations.

Conclusions:

  • Spatial pattern analysis can detect natural selection.
  • Directional selection fundamentally alters spatial genetic architecture in finite populations.
  • Findings are applicable to real-world population genetics studies, exemplified by Ipomoea purpurea.

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