Plastic and Evolved Responses to Global Change: What Can We Learn from Comparative Transcriptomics?

Abstract excerpt

Physiological plasticity and adaptive evolution may facilitate persistence in a changing environment. As a result, there is an interest in understanding species' capacities for plastic and evolved responses, and the mechanisms by which these responses occur. Transcriptome sequencing has become a powerful tool for addressing these questions, providing insight into otherwise unobserved effects of changing...

Topics

• Adaptation, Biological
• Biological Evolution
• Climate Change
• Environment
• Gene Expression Profiling
• Genomics
• Phenotype
• Research Design
• Stress, Physiological
• Temperature
• Transcriptome