A roadmap for understanding the evolutionary significance of structural genomic variation

C Mérot, RA Oomen, A Tigano… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
Structural genomic variants (SVs) are ubiquitous and play a major role in adaptation and
speciation. Yet, comparative and population genomics have focused predominantly on gene …

Local adaptation: causal agents of selection and adaptive trait divergence

SM Wadgymar, ML DeMarche… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Divergent selection across the landscape can favor the evolution of local adaptation in
populations experiencing contrasting conditions. Local adaptation is widely observed in a …

[PDF][PDF] Going beyond SNPs: The role of structural genomic variants in adaptive evolution and species diversification.

M Wellenreuther, C Mérot, E Berdan… - Molecular ecology, 2019 - bio.ulaval.ca
Although single‐nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) were initially thought to make‐up the
majority of selectable variation (Morin, Luikart, & Wayne, 2004; Sachidanandam et al …

Evolutionary processes from the perspective of flowering time diversity

A Gaudinier, BK Blackman - New Phytologist, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although it is well appreciated that genetic studies of flowering time regulation have led to
fundamental advances in the fields of molecular and developmental biology, the ways in …

Copy number variants outperform SNPs to reveal genotype–temperature association in a marine species

Y Dorant, H Cayuela, K Wellband, M Laporte… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Copy number variants (CNVs) are a major component of genotypic and phenotypic variation
in genomes. To date, our knowledge of genotypic variation and evolution has largely been …

The genomic scale of fluctuating selection in a natural plant population

JK Kelly - Evolution letters, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This study characterizes evolution at≈ 1.86 million Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
(SNPs) within a natural population of yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus). Most SNPs …

Standard deviations: the biological bases of transmission ratio distortion

L Fishman, M McIntosh - Annual Review of Genetics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The rule of Mendelian inheritance is remarkably robust, but deviations from the equal
transmission of alternative alleles at a locus [aka transmission ratio distortion (TRD)] are also …

High rates of structural rearrangements have shaped the chromosome evolution in dysploid Phaseolus beans

T Nascimento, A Pedrosa-Harand - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2023 - Springer
Key message Karyotypes evolve through numerical and structural chromosome
rearrangements. We show that Phaseolus leptostachyus, a wild bean, underwent a rapid …

A comprehensive framework for detecting copy number variants from single nucleotide polymorphism data: 'rCNV', a versatile r package for paralogue and CNV …

P Karunarathne, Q Zhou, K Schliep… - Molecular Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies have highlighted the significant role of copy number variants (CNVs) in
phenotypic diversity, environmental adaptation and species divergence across eukaryotes …

A second unveiling: Haplotig masking of the eastern oyster genome improves population‐level inference

JB Puritz, X Guo, M Hare, Y He… - Molecular Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Genome assembly can be challenging for species that are characterized by high amounts of
polymorphism, heterozygosity, and large effective population sizes. High levels of …