The potential of genomics for restoring ecosystems and biodiversity

MF Breed, PA Harrison, C Blyth, M Byrne… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Billions of hectares of natural ecosystems have been degraded through human actions. The
global community has agreed on targets to halt and reverse these declines, and the …

A molecular view of plant local adaptation: incorporating stress-response networks

A VanWallendael, A Soltani, NC Emery… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Ecological specialization in plants occurs primarily through local adaptation to different
environments. Local adaptation is widely thought to result in costly fitness trade-offs that …

Fitness variation across subtle environmental perturbations reveals local modularity and global pleiotropy of adaptation

G Kinsler, K Geiler-Samerotte, DA Petrov - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Building a genotype-phenotype-fitness map of adaptation is a central goal in evolutionary
biology. It is difficult even when adaptive mutations are known because it is hard to …

A large-effect fitness trade-off across environments is explained by a single mutation affecting cold acclimation

G Lee, BJ Sanderson, TJ Ellis… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Identifying the genetic basis of local adaptation and fitness trade-offs across environments is
a central goal of evolutionary biology. Cold acclimation is an adaptive plastic response for …

Genotype–environment associations to reveal the molecular basis of environmental adaptation

JR Lasky, EB Josephs, GP Morris - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
A fundamental goal in plant biology is to identify and understand the variation underlying
plants' adaptation to their environment. Climate change has given new urgency to this goal …

QTL× environment interactions underlie adaptive divergence in switchgrass across a large latitudinal gradient

DB Lowry, JT Lovell, L Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Local adaptation is the process by which natural selection drives adaptive phenotypic
divergence across environmental gradients. Theory suggests that local adaptation results …

Functional variants of DOG1 control seed chilling responses and variation in seasonal life-history strategies in Arabidopsis thaliana

A Martínez-Berdeja, MC Stitzer… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The seasonal timing of seed germination determines a plant's realized environmental niche,
and is important for adaptation to climate. The timing of seasonal germination depends on …

Genomic Patterns of Local Adaptation under Gene Flow in Arabidopsis lyrata

T Hämälä, O Savolainen - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Short-scale local adaptation is a complex process involving selection, migration, and drift.
The expected effects on the genome are well grounded in theory but examining these on an …

Small spaces, big impacts: contributions of micro-environmental variation to population persistence under climate change

DA Denney, MI Jameel, JB Bemmels, ME Rochford… - AoB Plants, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Individuals within natural populations can experience very different abiotic and biotic
conditions across small spatial scales owing to microtopography and other micro …

The search for sexually antagonistic genes: Practical insights from studies of local adaptation and statistical genomics

F Ruzicka, L Dutoit, P Czuppon, CY Jordan… - Evolution …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Sexually antagonistic (SA) genetic variation—in which alleles favored in one sex are
disfavored in the other—is predicted to be common and has been documented in several …