Population epigenomics of Swedish Arabidopsis

ABSTRACT: Plants display remarkable developmental and phenotypic plasticity in order to adapt to their environment. It has long been postulated that epigenetics plays a key role in these processes, but with one or two exceptions, solid evidence for the role of epigenetic variation in these processes is lacking. A key impediment to understanding these processes is the lack of information on the extent of epigenetic variation and how it relates to genetic and phenotypic variation in natural population, both over the lifecycle of an individual, and over evolutionary time. Here we show that genetic variants under selection in the north of Sweden appear to drive variation in DNA methylation, which in turn is highly correlated with local climate. Selective sweeps and genetic variants associated with adapt

ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana

SUBMITTER: Magnus Nordborg 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-65685 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress