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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5717
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-3-25
pubmed:abstractText
Major phenotypic changes evolve in parallel in nature by molecular mechanisms that are largely unknown. Here, we use positional cloning methods to identify the major chromosome locus controlling armor plate patterning in wild threespine sticklebacks. Mapping, sequencing, and transgenic studies show that the Ectodysplasin (EDA) signaling pathway plays a key role in evolutionary change in natural populations and that parallel evolution of stickleback low-plated phenotypes at most freshwater locations around the world has occurred by repeated selection of Eda alleles derived from an ancestral low-plated haplotype that first appeared more than two million years ago. Members of this clade of low-plated alleles are present at low frequencies in marine fish, which suggests that standing genetic variation can provide a molecular basis for rapid, parallel evolution of dramatic phenotypic change in nature.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1095-9203
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
25
pubmed:volume
307
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1928-33
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Alleles, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Animals, Genetically Modified, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Biological Evolution, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Body Patterning, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Chromosome Walking, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Ectodysplasins, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Fresh Water, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Gene Frequency, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Genetic Variation, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Haplotypes, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Linkage Disequilibrium, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Seawater, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Selection, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Sequence Analysis, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:15790847-Smegmamorpha
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Widespread parallel evolution in sticklebacks by repeated fixation of Ectodysplasin alleles.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5329, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't