Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
Oxford Academic
School
School of Natural Sciences
RAS ID
25679
Funders
Australian National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (TB11 03)
Great Western Woodlands Supersite of Australia’s Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Australian Research Centre Discovery Grant
Grant Number
ARC Number : DP130104220
Abstract
Widespread species spanning strong environmental (e.g., climatic) gradients frequently display morphological and physiological adaptations to local conditions. Some adaptations are common to different species that occupy similar environments. However, the genomic architecture underlying such convergent traits may not be the same between species. Using genomic data from previous studies of three widespread eucalypt species that grow along rainfall gradients in southern Australia, our probabilistic approach provides evidence that adaptation to aridity is a genome-wide phenomenon, likely to involve multiple and diverse genes, gene families and regulatory regions that affect a multitude of complex genetic and biochemical processes.
DOI
10.1093/gbe/evw290
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Comments
Steane, D. A., Potts, B. M., McLean, E. H., Collins, L., Holland, B. R., Prober, S. M., ... & Byrne, M. (2017). Genomic scans across three eucalypts suggest that adaptation to aridity is a genome-wide phenomenon. Genome Biology and Evolution, 9(2), 253-265.
https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evw290