Bottleneck Effects


Background Article:

Nei, M., T. Maruyama, R. Chakraborty. 1975. The bottleneck effect and genetic variability in populations. Evolution 29:1-10.

Genetic Revolutions, Transilience, and Founder Events:

Austerlitz, F. et. al. 1997. Evolution of coalescence times, genetic diversity, and structure during colonization. Theoretical Population Biology 51:148-164.

Barton, N.H. and B. Charlesworth. 1984. Genetic revolutions, founder effects, and speciation. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 15: 133-164.

Carson, H. L. and A. Templeton. 1984. Genetic revolutions in relation to speciation phenomena: the founding of new populations. Annu. Rev.Ecol. Syst. 15:97-131.

Le Corre, V., and A. Kremer. 1998. Cumulative effects of founding events during colonization on genetic diversity and differentiation inan island and stepping-stone model. J. Evo. Bio. 11:495-512.

Rundle Howard , Mooers Arne O. ,Whitlock Michael C. 1998. Single founder-flush events and the evolution of reproductive isolation.Evolution. 52: 1850-1855.

Templeton, A.R. 1996. Experimental evidence for the genetic-transilience model of speciation. Evol. 50:909-915.

The Effects of Bottlenecks on Genetic Variance:

Araki, Hitoshi., and others. 1997. Bottleneck effect on evolutionary rate in the nearly neutral mutation model. Genetics v. 147 (Oct. '97)p. 907-14.

Bryant, E.H., S.A. McCommas, and L.M. Combs. 1986. The effect of an experimental bottleneck upon quantitative genetic variation in thehousefly. Genetics 114:1191-1211.

Bryant Edwin H., and L. Meffert. 1995. An analysis of selectional response in relation to a population bottleneck. Evolution. 49(4). 626-634.

Bryant, E.H., and others. 1996. Nonadditive genetic structuring of morphometric variation in relation to a population bottleneck.Heredity : 77: p. 168-176.

Carson, H.L., and others. 1989. Increase in genetic variance following a population bottleneck. The American Naturalist 134: p. 668-673.

Cheverud James M, and E. Routman. 1996. Epistasis as asoure of increased additive genetic variance at populationbottlenecks.Evolution. 50(3).1042-1051.

Cheverud James M, Vaughn Ty T,. Pletscher L Susan, King-Ellison Kelly, Bailiff Jeff , Adams Emily, Erickson Christopher, Bonislawski Adam 1999. Epistasis and the evolution of additive genetic variance in populations that pass through a bottleneck. Evolution. 53: 1009-1018.

Goodnight, Charles J. 1988. Epistasis and the effect of founder events on the additive genetic variance. Evolution 42: p. 441-54.

Wang, J., and others. 1998. Bottleneck effect on genetic variance: a theoretical investigation of the role of dominance. Genetics 150: p.435-447. .

Inbreeding

Fowler Kevin, Whitlock Michael C. 1999. The variance in inbreeding depression and the recovery of fitness in bottlenecked populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B. 266(1433): 2061-2066.

Saccheri, I.J., and others. 1999. Inbreeding of bottlenecked butterfly populations: estimation using the likelihood of changes in marker allele frequencies. Genetics 151: p. 1053-1063.

Tests for Bottlenecks:

Cornuet, JM, and G. Luikart. 1996. Description and power analysis of two tests for detecting recent population bottlenecks from allele frequency data. Genetics 144:2001-14.

Luikart G L, Allendrof F W, Cornuet J-M. Sherwin, W B. 1998. Distortion of allele frequency distributions provides a test for recent population bottlenecks. Journal of Heredity. 89: 238-247.

Luikart, Gordon, and others. 1999. Temporal changes in allele frequencies provide estimates of population bottleneck size. Conservation Biology 13: p.523-30.

Luikart, G., et al. 1998. Usefulness of molecular markers for detecting population bottlenecks via monitoring genetic change. Molecular Ecology 7: 963-74.

Rooney, Alejandro P., Honeycutt Rodney L., Davis Scott K., Derr James N. 1999. Evaluating a putative bottleneck in a population of bowhead whales from patterns of microsatellite diversity and genetic disequilibria. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 49: 682-690.

Bottlenecks in Human Populations:

Ambrose, S. 1998. Late Pleistocene human population bottlenecks, volcanic winter, and differentiation of modern humans. Journal of Human Evolution 34: 623-651.

Fay, J.C. and C. Wu. 1999. A human population bottleneck can account for the discordance between patterns of mitochondrial vs. nuclear DNA variation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16:1003-5.

Hey, J., and E. Harris. 1999. Population bottlenecks and patterns of human polymorphism. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16: 1423-26

Kittles, R.A. et al. 1999. Autosomal, mitochondrial, and Y chromosome DNA variation in Finland: Evidence for a male specific bottleneck. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 108: 381-99.

Other Examples:

Bouzat Juan L, Cheng Hans H., Lewin Harris A., Westemeier Ronald L., Brawn Jeffrey D. , Paige Ken N. 1998.Genetic evaluation of a demographic bottleneck in the greater prairie chicken. Conservation Biology. 12: 836-843.

Cabe Paul R.1998. The effects of founding bottlenecks on genetic variation in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) in North America. Heredity. 80: 519-525.

Glenn Travis C, Stephan Wolfgang, Braun Michael J. 1999. Effects of a population bottleneck on Whooping Crane mitochondrial DNA variation.Conservation Biology. 13:1097-1107.

Hoelzel A Rus. 1999. Impact of population bottlenecks on genetic variation and the importance of life-history; A case study of the northern elephant seal. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
68: 23-39.

Knapp, Eric E., and others.1999. Genetic consequences of a single-founder population bottleneck in Trifolium amoenum (Fabaceae). American Journal of Botany 86: p.124-30.

Waldman John R, Bender Reese E., Wirgin Isaac I. 1998. Multiple population bottlenecks and DNA diversity in populations of wild stripes bass, Morone saxatilis. Fishery Bulletin. 96: 614-620