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Balancing selection maintains diversity in a cold tolerance gene in broadly distributed live oaks.
Genome - 1 Sept 2017
Meireles Jose Eduardo, Beulke Anne, Borkowski Daniel S, Romero-Severson Jeanne, Cavender-Bares Jeannine
Abstract excerpt
Cold poses major physiological challenges to plants, especially long-lived trees. In trees occurring along variable temperature clines, the expected direction and consequences of selection on cold acclimation ability and freezing tolerance are not straightforward. Here we estimated selection in cold acclimation genes at two evolutionary timescales in all seven species of the American live oaks (Quercus subsection...
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