Correlations of Genotype with Climate Parameters Suggest Caenorhabditis elegans Niche Adaptations.

ABSTRACT: Species inhabit a variety of environmental niches, and the adaptation to a particular niche is often controlled by genetic factors, including gene-by-environment interactions. The genes that vary in order to regulate the ability to colonize a niche are often difficult to identify, especially in the context of complex ecological systems and in experimentally uncontrolled natural environments. Quantitative genetic approaches provide an opportunity to investigate correlations between genetic factors and environmental parameters that might define a niche. Previously, we have shown how a collection of 208 whole-genome sequenced wild Caenorhabditis elegans can facilitate association mapping approaches. To correlate climate parameters with the variation found in this collection of wild strains, w

SUBMITTER: Evans KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5217117 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature