Article
Evolution of Metabolome and Transcriptome Supports a Hierarchical Organization of Adaptive Traits.
Genome biology and evolution - 1 Jun 2023
Lai Wei-Yun, Otte Kathrin A, Schlötterer Christian
Abstract excerpt
Most organismal phenotypes have a polygenic basis, which enables adaptive phenotypic responses on ecological time scales. While adaptive phenotypic changes are highly parallel in replicate populations, this does not apply to the contributing loci. In particular for small populations, the same phenotypic shift can be fueled by different sets of alleles at alternative loci (genetic redundancy). Although this...
Topics
- Animals
- Transcriptome
- Phenotype
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Drosophila simulans
- Metabolome
- Biological Evolution
