Meta-analysis: Congruence of genomic and phenotypic differentiation across diverse natural study systems.

ABSTRACT: Linking genotype to phenotype is a primary goal for understanding the genomic underpinnings of evolution. However, little work has explored whether patterns of linked genomic and phenotypic differentiation are congruent across natural study systems and traits. Here, we investigate such patterns with a meta-analysis of studies examining population-level differentiation at subsets of loci and traits putatively responding to divergent selection. We show that across the 31 studies (88 natural population-level comparisons) we examined, there was a moderate (R ² = 0.39) relationship between genomic differentiation (F _ST ) and phenotypic differentiation (P _ST ) for loci and traits putatively under selection. This quantitative re

SUBMITTER: Wood ZT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8477602 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature