All life forms across the globe are experiencing drastic changes in environmental conditions
as a result of global climate change. These environmental changes are happening rapidly …

The analysis of polymorphism data is becoming increasingly important as a complementary
tool to classical genetic analyses. Nevertheless, despite plunging sequencing costs …

Global climate change (GCC) increasingly threatens biodiversity through the loss of species,
and the transformation of entire ecosystems. Many species are challenged by the pace of …

The genetic architecture of adaptive traits is of key importance to predict evolutionary
responses. Most adaptive traits are polygenic—ie, result from selection on a large number of …

The genetic underpinnings associated with the earliest stages of plant and animal
domestication have remained elusive. Because a genome-wide response to selection can …

Many traits of interest are highly heritable and genetically complex, meaning that much of
the variation they exhibit arises from differences at numerous loci in the genome. Complex …

Life-history traits or “fitness components”—such as age and size at maturity, fecundity and
fertility, age-specific rates of survival, and life span—are the major phenotypic determinants …

The flowering phenology of early-blooming plants is largely determined by snowmelt timing
in high-latitude and high-altitude ecosystems. When the synchrony of flowering and …

Phenotypic plasticity, the property by which living organisms express different phenotypes
depending on environmental conditions, can impact their response to environmental …

Evolve and resequence (E&R) is a new approach to investigate the genomic responses to
selection during experimental evolution. By using whole genome sequencing of pools of …