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- Title
G-matrix stability in clinally diverging populations of an annual weed.
- Authors
Henry, Georgia A; Stinchcombe, John R
- Abstract
How phenotypic and genetic divergence among populations is influenced by the genetic architecture of those traits, and how microevolutionary changes in turn affect the within-population patterns of genetic variation, are of major interest to evolutionary biology. Work on Ipomoea hederacea , an annual vine, has found genetic clines in the means of a suite of ecologically important traits, including flowering time, growth rate, seed mass, and corolla width. Here we investigate the genetic (co)variances of these clinally varying traits in two northern range-edge and two central populations of I. hederacea to evaluate the influence of the genetic architecture on divergence across the range. We find (1) limited evidence for clear differentiation between Northern and Southern populations in the structure of G , suggesting overall stability of G across the range despite mean trait divergence and (2) that the axes of greatest variation (gmax) were unaligned with the axis of greatest multivariate divergence. Together these results indicate the role of the quantitative genetic architecture in constraining evolutionary response and divergence among populations across the geographic range.
- Subjects
IPOMOEA; GENETIC variation; WEEDS; FLOWERING time; SEEDS; CLIMBING plants; PHENOTYPES
- Publication
Evolution, 2023, Vol 77, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
0014-3820
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/evolut/qpac005