Polygenic and monogenic adaptation drive evolutionary rescue at different magnitudes of environmental change.

Abstract excerpt

Understanding the genetic basis of rapid adaptation is key to predicting species' evolutionary responses to environmental change. However, it is still debatable whether many small-effect mutations or a few large-effect mutations underlie rapid adaptation, and how this knowledge can predict population survival or extinction. To address this question, we performed a series of ecologically grounded forward-in-time...

Topics

• Arabidopsis
• Selection, Genetic
• Multifactorial Inheritance
• Models, Genetic
• Adaptation, Physiological
• Biological Evolution