Genomic signatures of local adaptation to the degree of environmental predictability in rotifers.

ABSTRACT: Environmental fluctuations are ubiquitous and thus essential for the study of adaptation. Despite this, genome evolution in response to environmental fluctuations -and more specifically to the degree of environmental predictability- is still unknown. Saline lakes in the Mediterranean region are remarkably diverse in their ecological conditions, which can lead to divergent local adaptation patterns in the inhabiting aquatic organisms. The facultatively sexual rotifer Brachionus plicatilis shows diverging local adaptation in its life-history traits in relation to estimated environmental predictability in its habitats. Here, we used an integrative approach -combining environmental, phenotypic and genomic data for the same populations- to understand the genomic basis of this diverging adaptati

SUBMITTER: Franch-Gras L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6207753 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature