Climate-Associated Genetic Variation and Projected Genetic Offsets for <i>Cryptomeria japonica</i> D. Don Under Future Climate Scenarios.

ABSTRACT: Revealing the spatial distribution of adaptive genetic variation is both a challenging and crucial task in evolutionary ecology, essential for understanding local adaptation within species, and in management, for predicting species responses to future climate change. This understanding is particularly important for long-lived tree species, which may not be able to migrate quickly enough to adapt to rapid climate changes and may need to rely on their standing genetic variation. In this study, we focused on Cryptomeria japonica, a major component of Japan's temperate forests and an important forestry species adapted to the humid environment of monsoon Asia. We extracted climate-associated genetic variation from the entire genome and evaluated its distribution and vulnerability under f

SUBMITTER: Uchiyama K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11802333 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature