Contrasting genomic shifts underlie parallel phenotypic evolution in response to fishing

NO Therkildsen, AP Wilder, DO Conover, SB Munch… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Humans cause widespread evolutionary change in nature, but we still know little about the
genomic basis of rapid adaptation in the Anthropocene. We tracked genomic changes …

Divergence and plasticity shape adaptive potential of the Pacific oyster

LI Li, AO Li, K Song, J Meng, X Guo, S Li, C Li… - Nature Ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
The interplay between divergence and phenotypic plasticity is critical to our understanding
of a species' adaptive potential under rapid climate changes. We investigated divergence …

Practical low‐coverage genomewide sequencing of hundreds of individually barcoded samples for population and evolutionary genomics in nonmodel species

NO Therkildsen, SR Palumbi - Molecular ecology resources, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Today most population genomic studies of nonmodel organisms either sequence a subset of
the genome deeply in each individual or sequence pools of unlabelled individuals. With a …

Local adaptation in a marine foundation species: Implications for resilience to future global change

K DuBois, KN Pollard, BJ Kauffman… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental change is multidimensional, with local anthropogenic stressors and global
climate change interacting to differentially impact populations throughout a species' …

Population genomic evidence for adaptive differentiation in Baltic Sea three-spined sticklebacks

B Guo, J DeFaveri, G Sotelo, A Nair, J Merilä - BMC biology, 2015 - Springer
Background The degree of genetic differentiation among populations experiencing high
levels of gene flow is expected to be low for neutral genomic sites, but substantial …

Detecting polygenic selection in marine populations by combining population genomics and quantitative genetics approaches

PA Gagnaire, OE Gaggiotti - Current Zoology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Highly fecund marine species with dispersive life-history stages often display large
population sizes and wide geographic distribution ranges. Consequently, they are expected …

Local adaptation to salinity in the three‐spined stickleback?

J DeFaveri, J Merilä - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Different lines of evidence suggest that the occurrence and extent of local adaptation in high
gene flow marine environments–even in mobile and long‐lived vertebrates with complex life …

Footprints of local adaptation span hundreds of linked genes in the Atlantic silverside genome

AP Wilder, SR Palumbi, DO Conover… - Evolution …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The study of local adaptation in the presence of ongoing gene flow is the study of natural
selection in action, revealing the functional genetic diversity most relevant to contemporary …

Full mitochondrial genome sequences reveal new insights about post-glacial expansion and regional phylogeographic structure in the Atlantic silverside (Menidia …

RN Lou, NK Fletcher, AP Wilder, DO Conover… - Marine Biology, 2018 - Springer
One of the biggest challenges in population genetics of marine species is to uncover subtle
phylogeographic patterns masked by large effective population sizes and/or high gene flow …

Local adaptation in an estuarine foundation species: Implications for restoration

JM Bible, E Sanford - Biological Conservation, 2016 - Elsevier
Understanding the extent of local adaptation is critical for conservation and restoration
planning in an era of environmental change. Adaptive differentiation among populations …