Genomic signatures of thermal adaptation are associated with clinal shifts of life history in a broadly distributed frog.

ABSTRACT: Temperature is a critical driver of ectotherm life-history strategies, whereby a warmer environment is associated with increased growth, reduced longevity and accelerated senescence. Increasing evidence indicates that thermal adaptation may underlie such life-history shifts in wild populations. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and copy number variants (CNVs) can help uncover the molecular mechanisms of temperature-driven variation in growth, longevity and senescence. However, our understanding of these mechanisms is still limited, which reduces our ability to predict the response of non-model ectotherms to global temperature change. In this study, we examined the potential role of thermal adaptation in clinal shifts of life-history traits (i.e. life span, senescence rate and recruitm

SUBMITTER: Cayuela H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9292533 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature