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Genome-wide macroevolutionary signatures of key innovations in butterflies colonizing new host plants.


ABSTRACT: The mega-diversity of herbivorous insects is attributed to their co-evolutionary associations with plants. Despite abundant studies on insect-plant interactions, we do not know whether host-plant shifts have impacted both genomic adaptation and species diversification over geological times. We show that the antagonistic insect-plant interaction between swallowtail butterflies and the highly toxic birthworts began 55 million years ago in Beringia, followed by several major ancient host-plant shifts. This evolutionary framework provides a valuable opportunity for repeated tests of genomic signatures of macroevolutionary changes and estimation of diversification rates across their phylogeny. We find that host-plant shifts in butterflies are associated with both genome-wide adaptive molecular evolution (more genes under positive selection) and repeated bursts of speciation rates, contributing to an increase in global diversification through time. Our study links ecological changes, genome-wide adaptations and macroevolutionary consequences, lending support to the importance of ecological interactions as evolutionary drivers over long time periods.

SUBMITTER: Allio R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7806994 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Genome-wide macroevolutionary signatures of key innovations in butterflies colonizing new host plants.

Allio Rémi R   Nabholz Benoit B   Wanke Stefan S   Chomicki Guillaume G   Pérez-Escobar Oscar A OA   Cotton Adam M AM   Clamens Anne-Laure AL   Kergoat Gaël J GJ   Sperling Felix A H FAH   Condamine Fabien L FL  

Nature communications 20210113 1


The mega-diversity of herbivorous insects is attributed to their co-evolutionary associations with plants. Despite abundant studies on insect-plant interactions, we do not know whether host-plant shifts have impacted both genomic adaptation and species diversification over geological times. We show that the antagonistic insect-plant interaction between swallowtail butterflies and the highly toxic birthworts began 55 million years ago in Beringia, followed by several major ancient host-plant shif  ...[more]

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