Genome-wide parallelism underlies contemporary adaptation in urban lizards.

ABSTRACT: Urbanization drastically transforms landscapes, resulting in fragmentation, degradation, and the loss of local biodiversity. Yet, urban environments also offer opportunities to observe rapid evolutionary change in wild populations that survive and even thrive in these novel habitats. In many ways, cities represent replicated "natural experiments" in which geographically separated populations adaptively respond to similar selection pressures over rapid evolutionary timescales. Little is known, however, about the genetic basis of adaptive phenotypic differentiation in urban populations nor the extent to which phenotypic parallelism is reflected at the genomic level with signatures of parallel selection. Here, we analyzed the genomic underpinnings of parallel urban-associated phenotypic chang

SUBMITTER: Winchell KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9934206 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature