Adaptive introgression: a plant perspective

A Suarez-Gonzalez, C Lexer… - Biology letters, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Introgression is emerging as an important source of novel genetic variation, alongside
standing variation and mutation. It is adaptive when such introgressed alleles are …

Mixing it up: the role of hybridization in forest management and conservation under climate change

JK Janes, JA Hamilton - Forests, 2017 - mdpi.com
Forest tree hybrid zones provide a wealth of novel genetic variation that can be harnessed to
safeguard populations in changing climates. In the past 30 years, natural and artificial forest …

Ancient introgression drives adaptation to cooler and drier mountain habitats in a cypress species complex

Y Ma, JI Wang, Q Hu, J Li, Y Sun, L Zhang… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Introgression may act as an important source of new genetic variation to facilitate the
adaptation of organisms to new environments, yet how introgression might enable tree …

Genomic and functional approaches reveal a case of adaptive introgression from Populus balsamifera (balsam poplar) in Ptrichocarpa (black cottonwood)

A Suarez‐Gonzalez, CA Hefer, C Christe… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Natural hybrid zones in forest trees provide systems to study the transfer of adaptive genetic
variation by introgression. Previous landscape genomic studies in Populus trichocarpa, a …

[图书][B] The conifers

DB Neale, NC Wheeler, DB Neale, NC Wheeler - 2019 - Springer
The conifers are a diverse and ancient group of seed plants of monophyletic origin that
arose more than 300 million years ago (Rothwell and Scheckler 1988). They are uniformly …

The extent and meaning of hybridization and introgression between Siberian spruce (Picea obovata) and Norway spruce (Picea abies): cryptic refugia as stepping …

Y Tsuda, J Chen, M Stocks, T Källman… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Boreal species were repeatedly exposed to ice ages and went through cycles of contraction
and expansion while sister species alternated periods of contact and isolation. The resulting …

Geographic cline analysis as a tool for studying genome‐wide variation: A case study of pollinator‐mediated divergence in a monkeyflower

S Stankowski, JM Sobel, MA Streisfeld - Molecular ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A major goal of speciation research is to reveal the genomic signatures that accompany the
speciation process. Genome scans are routinely used to explore genome‐wide variation …

Annual aboveground carbon uptake enhancements from assisted gene flow in boreal black spruce forests are not long-lasting

MP Girardin, N Isabel, XJ Guo, M Lamothe… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Assisted gene flow between populations has been proposed as an adaptive forest
management strategy that could contribute to the sequestration of carbon. Here we provide …

The role of hybridization during ecological divergence of southwestern white pine (Pinus strobiformis) and limber pine (P. flexilis)

M Menon, JC Bagley, CJ Friedline… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Interactions between extrinsic factors, such as disruptive selection and intrinsic factors, such
as genetic incompatibilities among loci, often contribute to the maintenance of species …

Hybridization and introgression in sympatric and allopatric populations of four oak species

X Li, G Wei, YA El-Kassaby, Y Fang - BMC Plant Biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Hybridization and introgression are vital sources of novel genetic variation
driving diversification during reticulated evolution. Quercus is an important model clade …