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Winter storms drive rapid phenotypic, regulatory, and genomic shifts in the green anole lizard.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 4 Aug 2017
Campbell-Staton Shane C, Cheviron Zachary A, Rochette Nicholas, Catchen Julian, Losos Jonathan B, Edwards Scott V
Abstract excerpt
Extreme environmental perturbations offer opportunities to observe the effects of natural selection in wild populations. During the winter of 2013-2014, the southeastern United States endured an extreme cold event. We used thermal performance, transcriptomics, and genome scans to measure responses of lizard populations to storm-induced selection. We found significant increases in cold tolerance at the species'...
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