Natural hybridization reduces vulnerability to climate change

CJ Brauer, J Sandoval-Castillo, K Gates… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Under climate change, species unable to track their niche via range shifts are largely reliant
on genetic variation to adapt and persist. Genomic vulnerability predictions are used to …

Weaving place‐based knowledge for culturally significant species in the age of genomics: Looking to the past to navigate the future

A Rayne, S Blair, M Dale, B Flack… - Evolutionary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Relationships with place provide critical context for characterizing biocultural diversity. Yet,
genetic and genomic studies are rarely informed by Indigenous or local knowledge …

Environmental selection, rather than neutral processes, best explain regional patterns of diversity in a tropical rainforest fish

K Gates, J Sandoval-Castillo, CJ Brauer, PJ Unmack… - Heredity, 2023 - nature.com
To conserve the high functional and genetic variation in hotspots such as tropical rainforests,
it is essential to understand the forces driving and maintaining biodiversity. We asked to …

Unraveling the Environment-Phenotype-Genotype Nexus: Successful Approaches from Bird Colors and How to Apply Them to Other Traits and Taxa

RS Marcondes - The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
Demonstrating the genetic and environmental bases of adaptive phenotypes is a central
goal of biology. Bird colors have a storied tradition at the forefront of conceptual advances in …

Phylogenomics and biogeography of arid-adapted Chlamydogobius goby fishes

KD Mossop, AR Lemmon, EM Lemmon, R Eytan… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
The progressive aridification of the Australian continent from∼ 20 million years ago posed
severe challenges for the persistence of its resident biota. A key question involves the role of …

The role of neutral and adaptive evolutionary processes on patterns of genetic diversity across small cave‐dwelling populations of Icelandic Arctic charr (Salvelinus …

BJ Judson, BK Kristjánsson, CAL Leblanc… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the adaptability of small populations in the face of environmental change is a
central problem in evolutionary biology. Solving this problem is challenging because neutral …

Genetic approaches reveal a healthy population and an unexpectedly recent origin for an isolated desert spring fish

BL Sidlauskas, S Mathur, H Aydoğan… - BMC Ecology and …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Foskett Spring in Oregon's desert harbors a historically threatened population of
Western Speckled Dace (Rhinichthys klamathensis). Though recently delisted, the dace's …

Riverscape Genomics Clarifies Neutral and Adaptive Evolution in an Amazonian Characin Fish (Triportheus albus)

AC Hay, J Sandoval-Castillo, GM Cooke… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the role of natural selection in the evolution of wild populations is
challenging due to the spatial complexity of natural systems. The richest diversity of …

Aridification‐driven evolution of a migratory fish revealed by niche modelling and coalescence simulations

EJ Booth, J Sandoval‐Castillo… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Major knowledge gaps exist regarding the evolution of arid zone organisms. For
freshwater species with high dispersal potential, little is known if historical aridification …

[DOC][DOC] Unraveling the environment-phenotype-genotype nexus: examples, lessons and prospects from bird plumage colors

RS Marcondes - 2022 - ecoevorxiv.org
Connecting adaptive phenotypic variation to both its genetic and ecological bases is one of
the central goals of evolutionary biology. Birds, due to their ease of study and solid base of …