Adaptation of Arabidopsis thaliana to the Yangtze River basin.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Organisms need to adapt to keep pace with a changing environment. Examining recent range expansion aids our understanding of how organisms evolve to overcome environmental constraints. However, how organisms adapt to climate changes is a crucial biological question that is still largely unanswered. The plant Arabidopsis thaliana is an excellent system to study this fundamental question. Its origin is in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, but it has spread to the Far East, including the most south-eastern edge of its native habitats, the Yangtze River basin, where the climate is very different.

Results

We sequenced 118 A. thaliana strains from the region surrounding the Yangtze River basin. We found that the Yangtze River basin population is a unique populatio

SUBMITTER: Zou YP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5745794 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature