ORIGINAL ARTICLE
doi:10.1111/evo.13821
Evidence for sympatric speciation in a Wallacean ancient lake
Nobu Sutra,1 Junko Kusumi,2 Javier Montenegro,1 Hirozumi Kobayashi,1 Shingo Fujimoto,3 Kawilarang W. A. Masengi,4 Atsushi J. Nagano,5 Atsushi Toyoda,6 Masatoshi Matsunami,3 Ryosuke Kimura,3 and Kazunori Yamahira1,7 1Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan 2Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan 3Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa 903-0125, Japan 4Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Sam Ratulangi University, Manado 95115, Indonesia 5Faculty of Agriculture, Ryukoku University, Otsu 520-2194, Japan 6Comparative Genomics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima 411-8540, Japan 7E-mail: [email protected]
Received March 4, 2019 Accepted August 3, 2019
Sympatric speciation has been demonstrated in few empirical case studies, despite intense searches, because of difficulties in testing the criteria for this mode of speciation. Here, we report a possible case of sympatric speciation in ricefishes of the genus Oryzias on Sulawesi, an island of Wallacea. Three species of Oryzias are known to be endemic to Lake Poso, an ancient tectonic lake in central Sulawesi. Phylogenetic analyses using RAD-seq-derived single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) revealed that these species are monophyletic. We also found that the three species are morphologically distinguishable and clearly separated by population-structure analyses based on the SNPs, suggesting that they are reproductively isolated from each other. A mitochon- drial DNA chronogram suggested that their speciation events occurred after formation of the tectonic lake, and existence of a historical allopatric phase was not supported by coalescent-based demographic inference. Demographic inference also suggested introgressive hybridization from an outgroup population. However, differential admixture among the sympatric species was not supported by any statistical tests. These results all concur with criteria necessary to demonstrate sympatric speciation. Ricefishes in this Wallacean lake provide a promising new model system for the study of sympatric speciation.
KEY WORDS: Allopatric phase, demography, introgressive hybridization, Oryzias, reproductive isolation, Sulawesi.
Sympatric speciation, the process through which new species see Bolnick and Fitzpatrick 2007 for review). Some consider that evolve from a single ancestral species in the absence of geograph- this is not due to its rarity, but because of the difficulty of em- ical barriers, has been a central subject in evolutionary biology pirically demonstrating this mode of speciation (e.g., Bird et al. since Darwin’s “principle of divergence” (e.g., Mayr 1992; Turelli 2012). et al. 2001). Although subsequent theories contend that sympatric It is proposed that four criteria need to be satisfied to demon- speciation is possible under certain conditions (e.g., Dieckmann strate sympatric speciation (Coyne and Orr 2004): (1) sympatric and Doebeli 1999; Higashi et al. 1999; Kondrashov and Kon- contemporary distributions, (2) genetically based substantial re- drashov 1999; see Bolnick and Fitzpatrick 2007 for review), only productive isolation, (3) phylogenetic sister relationships, and (4) a few empirical case studies demonstrating this mode of specia- no historic phase of geographic isolation. However, inferences tion are known (e.g., Schliewen et al. 1994; Sorenson et al. 2003; of the phylogenetic sister relationship (criterion 3) may be mis- Barluenga et al. 2006; Savolainen et al. 2006; Herder et al. 2008; guided when only data for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and/or