Ecological genomics of local adaptation

O Savolainen, M Lascoux, J Merilä - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2013‏ - nature.com
It is increasingly important to improve our understanding of the genetic basis of local
adaptation because of its relevance to climate change, crop and animal production, and …

Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: Prospects fifty years after MacArthur‐Wilson

BH Warren, D Simberloff, RE Ricklefs… - Ecology …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
The study of islands as model systems has played an important role in the development of
evolutionary and ecological theory. The 50th anniversary of MacArthur and Wilson's …

[كتاب][B] Eco-evolutionary dynamics

AP Hendry - 2017‏ - degruyter.com
In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter
than the" long lapse of ages" emphasized by Darwin—in fact, evolutionary change is …

Convergent local adaptation to climate in distantly related conifers

S Yeaman, KA Hodgins, KE Lotterhos, H Suren… - Science, 2016‏ - science.org
When confronted with an adaptive challenge, such as extreme temperature, closely related
species frequently evolve similar phenotypes using the same genes. Although such …

Convergence, adaptation, and constraint

JB Losos - Evolution, 2011‏ - academic.oup.com
Convergent evolution of similar phenotypic features in similar environmental contexts has
long been taken as evidence of adaptation. Nonetheless, recent conceptual and empirical …

The genetic architecture of repeated local adaptation to climate in distantly related plants

JR Whiting, TR Booker, C Rougeux, BM Lind… - Nature ecology & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Closely related species often use the same genes to adapt to similar environments.
However, we know little about why such genes possess increased adaptive potential and …

Repeatability and contingency in the evolution of a key innovation in phage lambda

JR Meyer, DT Dobias, JS Weitz, JE Barrick, RT Quick… - Science, 2012‏ - science.org
The processes responsible for the evolution of key innovations, whereby lineages acquire
qualitatively new functions that expand their ecological opportunities, remain poorly …

Evolution of polygenic traits under global vs local adaptation

S Yeaman - Genetics, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Observations about the number, frequency, effect size, and genomic distribution of alleles
associated with complex traits must be interpreted in light of evolutionary process. These …

The probability of genetic parallelism and convergence in natural populations

GL Conte, ME Arnegard… - Proceedings of the …, 2012‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Genomic and genetic methods allow investigation of how frequently the same genes are
used by different populations during adaptive evolution, yielding insights into the …

Linking a mutation to survival in wild mice

RDH Barrett, S Laurent, R Mallarino, SP Pfeifer… - Science, 2019‏ - science.org
Adaptive evolution in new or changing environments can be difficult to predict because the
functional connections between genotype, phenotype, and fitness are complex. Here, we …