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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Interactions between extrinsic factors, such as disruptive selection and intrinsic factors, such as genetic incompatibilities among loci, often contribute to the maintenance of 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 …