Abiotic and past climatic conditions drive protein abundance variation among natural populations of the caddisfly Crunoecia irrorata.

ABSTRACT: Deducing impacts of environmental change on species and the populations they form in nature is an important goal in contemporary ecology. Achieving this goal is hampered by our limited understanding of the influence of naturally occurring environmental variation on the molecular systems of ecologically relevant species, as the pathways underlying fitness-affecting plastic responses have primarily been studied in model organisms and under controlled laboratory conditions. Here, to test the hypothesis that proteome variation systematically relates to variation in abiotic conditions, we establish such relationships by profiling the proteomes of 24 natural populations of the spring-dwelling caddisfly Crunoecia irrorata. We identified protein networks whose abundances correlated with environmen

SUBMITTER: Ebner JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7512004 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature