Browsing by Author "Bruzzese, Daniel J."

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    Evidence for spatial clines and mixed geographic modes of speciation for North American cherry‐infesting Rhagoletis (Diptera: Tephritidae) flies
    (Wiley, 2020) Doellman, Meredith M.; Jean, Gilbert Saint; Egan, Scott P.; Powell, Thomas H.Q.; Hood, Glen Ray; Schuler, Hannes; Bruzzese, Daniel J.; Glover, Mary M.; Smith, James J.; Yee, Wee L.; Goughnour, Robert B.; Rull, Juan; Aluja, Martin; Feder, Jeffrey L.
    An important criterion for understanding speciation is the geographic context of population divergence. Three major modes of allopatric, parapatric, and sympatric speciation define the extent of spatial overlap and gene flow between diverging populations. However, mixed modes of speciation are also possible, whereby populations experience periods of allopatry, parapatry, and/or sympatry at different times as they diverge. Here, we report clinal patterns of variation for 21 nuclear‐encoded microsatellites and a wing spot phenotype for cherry‐infesting Rhagoletis (Diptera: Tephritidae) across North America consistent with these flies having initially diverged in parapatry followed by a period of allopatric differentiation in the early Holocene. However, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) displays a different pattern; cherry flies at the ends of the clines in the eastern USA and Pacific Northwest share identical haplotypes, while centrally located populations in the southwestern USA and Mexico possess a different haplotype. We hypothesize that the mitochondrial difference could be due to lineage sorting but more likely reflects a selective sweep of a favorable mtDNA variant or the spread of an endosymbiont. The estimated divergence time for mtDNA suggests possible past allopatry, secondary contact, and subsequent isolation between USA and Mexican fly populations initiated before the Wisconsin glaciation. Thus, the current genetics of cherry flies may involve different mixed modes of divergence occurring in different portions of the fly's range. We discuss the need for additional DNA sequencing and quantification of prezygotic and postzygotic reproductive isolation to verify the multiple mixed‐mode hypothesis for cherry flies and draw parallels from other systems to assess the generality that speciation may commonly involve complex biogeographies of varying combinations of allopatric, parapatric, and sympatric divergence.
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    Geographic and Ecological Dimensions of Host Plant-Associated Genetic Differentiation and Speciation in theﾠRhagoletis cingulataﾠ(Diptera: Tephritidae) Sibling Species Group
    (MDPI, 2019) Doellman, Meredith M.; Schuler, Hannes; Jean Saint, Gilbert; Hood, Glen R.; Egan, Scott P.; Powell, Thomas H.Q.; Glover, Mary M.; Bruzzese, Daniel J.; Smith, James J.; Yee, Wee L.; Goughnour, Robert B.; Rull, Juan; Aluja, Martin; Feder, Jeffrey L.
    Ascertaining the causes of adaptive radiation is central to understanding how new species arise and come to vary with their resources. The ecological theory posits adaptive radiation via divergent natural selection associated with novel resource use; an alternative suggests character displacement following speciation in allopatry and then secondary contact of reproductively isolated but ecologically similar species. Discriminating between hypotheses, therefore, requires the establishment of a key role for ecological diversification in initiating speciation versus a secondary role in facilitating co-existence. Here, we characterize patterns of genetic variation and postzygotic reproductive isolation for tephritid fruit flies in the Rhagoletis cingulata sibling species group to assess the significance of ecology, geography, and non-adaptive processes for their divergence. Our results support the ecological theory: no evidence for intrinsic postzygotic reproductive isolation was found between two populations of allopatric species, while nuclear-encoded microsatellites implied strong ecologically based reproductive isolation among sympatric species infesting different host plants. Analysis of mitochondrial DNA suggested, however, that cytoplasmic-related reproductive isolation may also exist between two geographically isolated populations within R cingulata. Thus, ecology associated with sympatric host shifts and cytoplasmic effects possibly associated with an endosymbiont may be the key initial drivers of the radiation of the R. cingulata group.