Article
Unique Genomic and Phenotypic Responses to Extreme and Variable pH Conditions in Purple Urchin Larvae.
Integrative and comparative biology - 1 Aug 2020
Garrett April D, Brennan Reid S, Steinhart Anya L, Pelletier Aubrey M, Pespeni Melissa H
Abstract excerpt
Environmental variation experienced by a species across space and time can promote the maintenance of genetic diversity that may be adaptive in future global change conditions. Selection experiments have shown that purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, populations have adaptive genetic variation for surviving pH conditions at the "edge" (pH 7.5) of conditions experienced in nature. However, little is...
Topics
- Animals
- Body Size
- Carbon Dioxide
- Climate Change
- Genome
- Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
- Larva
- Phenotype
- Seawater
- Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
