Data from: Predicting the evolutionary dynamics of seasonal adaptation to novel climates in Arabidopsis thaliana

Main Authors: Fournier-Level, Alexandre, Perry, Emily O., Wang, Jonathan A., Braun, Peter T., Migneault, Andrew, Cooper, Martha D., Metcalf, C. Jessica E., Schmitt, Johanna
Format: info dataset Journal
Terbitan: , 2017
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Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5005190
Daftar Isi:
  • Anticipating the effect of climate change on plants requires understanding its evolutionary consequence on traits and genes in complex realistic environments. How seasonal variation has an impact on the dynamics of adaptation in natural populations remains unclear. We simulated adaptation to different climate change scenarios, grounding our analysis in experimental data and explicitly exploring seasonal variation. Seasonal variation dramatically affected the dynamics of adaptation: Marked seasonality led to genetic differentiation within the population to different seasonal periods, whereas low seasonality led to a single population with fast-evolving fitness. Our results suggest the prevalence of phenotypic plasticity across environmental conditions in determining how climate change will shift selection on traits and loci. In this unpredictable context, maintaining broad genomic diversity is critical.
  • Fournier-Leveletal2016_Data_ArchiveData and Analysis scripts in the R programming language supporting the article by Fournier-Level et al (2016) PNAS.