One hundred years into the study of ecotypes, new advances are being made through large-scale field experiments in perennial plant systems

A VanWallendael, DB Lowry, JA Hamilton - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
A hundred years after Turesson first clearly described how locally adaptive variation is
distributed within species, plant biologists are making major breakthroughs in our …

Behaviour shapes environmental variation and selection on learning and plasticity: review of mechanisms and implications

EC Snell-Rood, MK Steck - Animal Behaviour, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•We review behavioural traits that shape environmental variation.•We discuss how
experienced variation shapes selection on learning and plasticity.•We also discuss its …

A Transcriptomic Analysis of Phenotypic Plasticity in Crassostrea virginica Larvae under Experimental Acidification

M Barbosa, C Schwaner, E Pales Espinosa, B Allam - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ocean acidification (OA) is a major threat to marine calcifiers, and little is known regarding
acclimation to OA in bivalves. This study combined physiological assays with next …

Gene regulatory divergence between locally adapted ecotypes in their native habitats

BA Gould, Y Chen, DB Lowry - Molecular ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Local adaptation is a key driver of ecological specialization and the formation of new
species. Despite its importance, the evolution of gene regulatory divergence among locally …

Restoring ancestral phenotypes is a general pattern in gene expression evolution during adaptation to new environments in Tribolium castaneum

EL Koch, F Guillaume - Molecular ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plasticity and evolution are two processes allowing populations to respond to environmental
changes, but how both are related and impact each other remains controversial. We studied …

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity contributes to divergence between lake and river populations of an East African cichlid fish

J Rajkov, AAT Weber, W Salzburger… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptive phenotypic plasticity and fixed genotypic differences have long been considered
opposing strategies in adaptation. More recently, these mechanisms have been proposed to …

Gene expression remodelling and immune response during adaptive divergence in an African cichlid fish

J Rajkov, A El Taher, A Böhne, W Salzburger… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Variation in gene expression contributes to ecological speciation by facilitating population
persistence in novel environments. Likewise, immune responses can be of relevance in …

Gene expression responses to thermal shifts in the endangered lichen Lobaria pulmonaria

T Chavarria‐Pizarro, P Resl, A Janjic… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic climate change has led to unprecedented shifts in temperature across many
ecosystems. In a context of rapid environmental changes, acclimation is an important …

Comparative Transcriptomic Reveals Greater Similarities in Response to Temperature Than to Invasive Alien Predator in the Damselfly Ischnura elegans Across …

G Wos, G Palomar, M Marszałek… - Evolutionary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of global changes on populations may not be necessarily uniform across a
species' range. Here, we aim at comparing the phenotypic and transcriptomic response to …

[HTML][HTML] Role of Squalene Epoxidase Gene (SQE1) in the Response of the Lichen Lobaria pulmonaria to Temperature Stress

AO Onele, MA Swid, IY Leksin, DF Rakhmatullina… - Journal of Fungi, 2024 - mdpi.com
Currently, due to the increasing impact of anthropogenic factors and changes in solar
activity, the temperature on Earth is rising, posing a threat to biodiversity. Lichens are among …