Authors
Katharina C Wollenberg Valero, Joan Garcia‐Porta, Iker Irisarri, Lauric Feugere, Adam Bates, Sebastian Kirchhof, Olga Jovanović Glavaš, Panayiotis Pafilis, Sabrina F Samuel, Johannes Müller, Miguel Vences, Alexander P Turner, Pedro Beltran‐Alvarez, Kenneth B Storey
Publication date
2021/9/27
Journal
Journal of Animal Ecology
Description
  1. Understanding the genomic basis of adaptation to different abiotic environments is important in the context of climate change and resulting short‐term environmental fluctuations.
  2. Using functional and comparative genomics approaches, we here investigated whether signatures of genomic adaptation to a set of environmental parameters are concentrated in specific subsets of genes and functions in lacertid lizards and other vertebrates.
  3. We first identify 200 genes with signatures of positive diversifying selection from transcriptomes of 24 species of lacertid lizards and demonstrate their involvement in physiological and morphological adaptations to climate. To understand how functionally similar these genes are to previously predicted candidate functions for climate adaptation and to compare them with other vertebrate species, we then performed a meta‐analysis of 1,100 genes under selection obtained from …
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Scholar articles
KC Wollenberg Valero, J Garcia‐Porta, I Irisarri… - Journal of animal ecology, 2022
KCW Valero, J Garcia-Porta, I Irisarri, L Feugere… - bioRxiv, 2019