Demographic Inference Reveals African and European Admixture in the North American Drosophila melanogaster Population |
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Authors: | Pablo Duchen Daniel ?ivkovi? Stephan Hutter Wolfgang Stephan Stefan Laurent |
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Affiliation: | Evolutionary Biology, University of Munich, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany |
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Abstract: | Drosophila melanogaster spread from sub-Saharan Africa to the rest of the world colonizing new environments. Here, we modeled the joint demography of African (Zimbabwe), European (The Netherlands), and North American (North Carolina) populations using an approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) approach. By testing different models (including scenarios with continuous migration), we found that admixture between Africa and Europe most likely generated the North American population, with an estimated proportion of African ancestry of 15%. We also revisited the demography of the ancestral population (Africa) and found—in contrast to previous work—that a bottleneck fits the history of the population of Zimbabwe better than expansion. Finally, we compared the site-frequency spectrum of the ancestral population to analytical predictions under the estimated bottleneck model. |
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Keywords: | Demography Drosophila melanogaster approximate Bayesian computation site-frequency spectrum next-generation sequencing |
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