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Effect of a locally adapted genome on environmentally induced epigenetic variation.

Both genetic variation and environmentally induced epigenetic changes allow organisms to persist through the heterogeneity of their habitats. Selection on genetic variation can promote local adaptation of populations. However, in absence of genetic variation, clonal organisms mostly rely on epigenetics to respond to environmental heterogeneity. We used the potential of unisexual organisms in incorporating their host genome, to empirically assess whether the presence of a locally adapted genome affects environmentally induced epigenetic changes in clonal organisms. We addressed this problematic by using unisexual lineages of the kleptogen vertebrate Ambystoma laterale-jeffersonianum complex that can optionally incorporate genetic material from locally adapted sexual hosts through genomic exchanges. More specifically, we compared environmentally induced epigenetic changes between lineages strictly reproducing clonally vs. those incorporating a locally adapted genome. The results revealed that both lineage and sample site components, as well as their interaction, affected epigenetic variation. When lineages were analysed separately, differences among sample sites were only detected in lineages impervious to genomic exchanges. Sample sites had no significant effect on the epigenetic variation of lineages that performed genomic exchanges. These results suggest that environmentally induced epigenetic variation among sites depends more on the lack of locally adapted alleles than on the level of genetic variation.

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