Detecting balancing selection in genomes: limits and prospects

A Fijarczyk, W Babik - Molecular ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In spite of the long‐term interest in the process of balancing selection, its frequency in
genomes and evolutionary significance remain unclear due to challenges related to its …

Epigenetic responses to temperature and climate

BA McCaw, TJ Stevenson… - … and Comparative Biology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Epigenetics represents a widely accepted set of mechanisms by which organisms respond
to the environment by regulating phenotypic plasticity and life history transitions …

The simple fool's guide to population genomics via RNA‐Seq: an introduction to high‐throughput sequencing data analysis

P De Wit, MH Pespeni, JT Ladner… - Molecular ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
High‐throughput sequencing technologies are currently revolutionizing the field of biology
and medicine, yet bioinformatic challenges in analysing very large data sets have slowed …

Going where traditional markers have not gone before: utility of and promise for RAD sequencing in marine invertebrate phylogeography and population genomics

AM Reitzel, S Herrera, MJ Layden… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Characterization of large numbers of single‐nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP s)
throughout a genome has the power to refine the understanding of population demographic …

Natural variation and the capacity to adapt to ocean acidification in the keystone sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus

MW Kelly, JL Padilla‐Gamiño… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A rapidly growing body of literature documents the potential negative effects of CO2‐driven
ocean acidification (OA) on marine organisms. However, nearly all this work has focused on …

Practical low‐coverage genomewide sequencing of hundreds of individually barcoded samples for population and evolutionary genomics in nonmodel species

NO Therkildsen, SR Palumbi - Molecular ecology resources, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Today most population genomic studies of nonmodel organisms either sequence a subset of
the genome deeply in each individual or sequence pools of unlabelled individuals. With a …

Master of all trades: thermal acclimation and adaptation of cardiac function in a broadly distributed marine invasive species, the European green crab, Carcinus …

CK Tepolt, GN Somero - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
As global warming accelerates, there is increasing concern about how ecosystems may
change as a result of species loss and replacement. Here, we examined the thermal …

Transcriptome‐wide polymorphisms of red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) reveal patterns of gene flow and local adaptation

P De Wit, SR Palumbi - Molecular Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Global climate change is projected to accelerate during the next century, altering oceanic
patterns in temperature, p H and oxygen concentrations. Documenting patterns of genetic …

Persistent and plastic effects of temperature on DNA methylation across the genome of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

DCH Metzger, PM Schulte - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Epigenetic mechanisms such as changes in DNA methylation have the potential to affect the
resilience of species to climate change, but little is known about the response of the …

SNP genotyping and population genomics from expressed sequences–current advances and future possibilities

P De Wit, MH Pespeni, SR Palumbi - Molecular ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
With the rapid increase in production of genetic data from new sequencing technologies, a
myriad of new ways to study genomic patterns in nonmodel organisms are currently …