The genetics and epigenetics of animal migration and orientation: birds, butterflies and beyond

C Merlin, M Liedvogel - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Migration is a complex behavioural adaptation for survival that has evolved across the
animal kingdom from invertebrates to mammals. In some taxa, closely related migratory …

Sex-dependent dominance maintains migration supergene in rainbow trout

DE Pearse, NJ Barson, T Nome, G Gao… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Males and females often differ in their fitness optima for shared traits that have a shared
genetic basis, leading to sexual conflict. Morphologically differentiated sex chromosomes …

Investigating diadromy in fishes and its loss in an-omics era

ML Delgado, DE Ruzzante - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
Diadromy, the predictable movements of individuals between marine and freshwater
environments, is biogeographically and phylogenetically widespread across fishes. Thus …

Continent-wide genomic signatures of adaptation to urbanisation in a songbird across Europe

P Salmón, A Jacobs, D Ahrén, C Biard… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Urbanisation is increasing worldwide, and there is now ample evidence of phenotypic
changes in wild organisms in response to this novel environment. Yet, the genetic changes …

PacBio Iso-Seq improves the rainbow trout genome annotation and identifies alternative splicing associated with economically important phenotypes

A Ali, GH Thorgaard, M Salem - Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Rainbow trout is an important model organism that has received concerted international
efforts to study the transcriptome. For this purpose, short-read sequencing has been …

Back to the basics? Transcriptomics offers integrative insights into the role of space, time and the environment for gene expression and behaviour

EK Fischer, ME Hauber, AM Bell - Biology Letters, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fuelled by the ongoing genomic revolution, broadscale RNA expression surveys are fast
replacing studies targeting one or a few genes to understand the molecular basis of …

Genomic basis of the loss of diadromy in Galaxias maculatus: Insights from reciprocal transplant experiments

ML Delgado, A Manosalva, MA Urbina… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Diadromy is known for having major effects on the distribution and richness of aquatic
species, and so does its loss. The loss of diadromy has led to the diversification of many …

Identification of transcriptional and receptor networks that control root responses to ethylene

AF Harkey, JM Watkins, AL Olex, KT DiNapoli… - Plant …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Transcriptomic analyses with high temporal resolution provide substantial new insight into
hormonal response networks. This study identified the kinetics of genome-wide transcript …

Temporal Dynamics of DNA Methylation Patterns in Response to Rearing Juvenile Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in a Hatchery versus Simulated Stream …

MR Gavery, KM Nichols, BA Berejikian, CP Tatara… - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Genetic selection is often implicated as the underlying cause of heritable phenotypic
differences between hatchery and wild populations of steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus …

Plasma proteome profiling of freshwater and seawater life stages of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

B Morro, MK Doherty, P Balseiro, SO Handeland… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The sea-run phenotype of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), like other anadromous
salmonids, present a juvenile stage fully adapted to life in freshwater known as parr …