Article
Standing genetic variation fuels rapid adaptation to ocean acidification.
Nature communications - 20 Dec 2019
Bitter M C, Kapsenberg L, Gattuso J-P, Pfister C A
Abstract excerpt
Global climate change has intensified the need to assess the capacity for natural populations to adapt to abrupt shifts in the environment. Reductions in seawater pH constitute a conspicuous global change stressor that is affecting marine ecosystems globally. Here, we quantify the phenotypic and genetic modifications associated with rapid adaptation to reduced seawater pH in the Mediterranean mussel, Mytilus...
Topics
- Acclimatization
- Animals
- Bivalvia
- Climate Change
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
- Larva
- Mediterranean Sea
- Multifactorial Inheritance
- Phenotype