A theory of oligogenic adaptation of a quantitative trait

I Höllinger, B Wölfl, J Hermisson - Genetics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
oligogenic architecture types that exhibit characteristic patterns of partial sweeps. We find
that a single compound parameter, the … discuss the characteristics of oligogenic architectures …

An oligogenic architecture underlying ecological and reproductive divergence in sympatric populations

D Briševac, CM Peralta, TS Kaiser - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
… genetic basis of the trait, and should therefore not be equated with pleiotropy. … at the same
time. Of particular interest to our study is the scenario where divergent ecological adaptations

QTL analysis reveals an oligogenic architecture of a rapidly adapting trait during the European invasion of common ragweed

D Prapas, R Scalone, J Lee, KA Nurkowski, S Bou-assi… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
the genetic basis of climate adaptation in invasive common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia).
Flowering time adaptation is … Notably, the major flowering time QTL detected in this study …

Polygenic adaptation: a unifying framework to understand positive selection

N Barghi, J Hermisson, C Schlötterer - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
… , we illustrate how polygenic adaptation could be studied either in the laboratory, by …
may favour large-effect alleles in traits with oligogenic bases. In line with this expectation, …

Integrated environmental and genomic analysis reveals the drivers of local adaptation in African indigenous chickens

AA Gheyas, A Vallejo-Trujillo, A Kebede… - Molecular biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… a predominantly oligogenic control of environmental adaptation. … possible explanations for
the rapid past adaptation of chickens … We show that the pre-identification of key environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic adaptation: integrating population genetics and gene regulatory networks

M Fagny, F Austerlitz - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
… Finally, we discuss the need for a unifying framework merging the fields of … the molecular
bases of polygenic traits adaptation. … In between, many traits present an oligogenic or polygenic …

[HTML][HTML] Characterizing the oligogenic architecture of plant growth phenotypes informs genomic selection approaches in a common wheat population

N DeWitt, M Guedira, E Lauer, JP Murphy, D Marshall… - BMC genomics, 2021 - Springer
The oligogenic architecture of these traits is further demonstrated by the superior trait
prediction accuracy of QTL-based prediction models compared to polygenic genomic selection …

Human adaptation over the past 40,000 years

I Mathieson - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2020 - Elsevier
the relative importance of different modes of adaptation is limited. While recognizing that
non-genetic mechanisms of adaptation … , adaptation on polygenic traits may be more oligogenic

A B73× Palomero Toluqueño mapping population reveals local adaptation in Mexican highland maize

S Perez-Limón, M Li, GC Cintora-Martinez… - G3, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… , increased sheath pigmentation and the presence of sheath macrohairs. The oligogenic
architecture of these three morphological traits supports their role in adaptation, suggesting they …

[HTML][HTML] Chasing the mechanisms of ecologically adaptive salinity tolerance

S Busoms, S Fischer, L Yant - Plant communications, 2023 - cell.com
… Much recent insight has come from the study of salinity, a widespread factor limiting … ,
and the recently recognized role of ploidy and the microbiome on salinity adaptation. We …