The genetic differentiation at quantitative trait loci under local adaptation

V Le Corre, A Kremer - Molecular ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Most adaptive traits are controlled by large number of genes that may all together be the
targets of selection. Adaptation may thus involve multiple but not necessarily substantial …

Elevated performance: the unique physiology of birds that fly at high altitudes

GR Scott - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2011 - journals.biologists.com
Birds that fly at high altitudes must support vigorous exercise in oxygen-thin environments.
Here I discuss the characteristics that help high fliers sustain the high rates of metabolism …

Using environmental correlations to identify loci underlying local adaptation

G Coop, D Witonsky, A Di Rienzo, JK Pritchard - Genetics, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Loci involved in local adaptation can potentially be identified by an unusual correlation
between allele frequencies and important ecological variables or by extreme allele …

Natural selection and spatial cognition in wild food-caching mountain chickadees

BR Sonnenberg, CL Branch, AM Pitera, E Bridge… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Understanding how differences in cognition evolve is one of the critical goals in cognitive
ecology [1–5]. In food-caching species that rely on memory to recover caches, enhanced …

Molecular evolution of cytochrome c oxidase underlies high-altitude adaptation in the bar-headed goose

GR Scott, PM Schulte, S Egginton… - Molecular biology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Bar-headed geese (Anser indicus) fly at up to 9,000 m elevation during their migration over
the Himalayas, sustaining high metabolic rates in the severe hypoxia at these altitudes. We …

Enhanced AFLP genome scans detect local adaptation in high‐altitude populations of a small rodent (Microtus arvalis)

MC Fischer, M Foll, L Excoffier, G Heckel - Molecular ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptation to adverse environmental conditions such as high altitude requires physiological
and/or morphological changes. Genome scans provide a means to identify the genetic basis …

Ecological speciation along an elevational gradient in a tropical passerine bird?

LM Caro, PC Caycedo‐Rosales… - Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Local adaptation of populations along elevational gradients is well known, but conclusive
evidence that such divergence has resulted in the origin of distinct species in parapatry …

Rapid phenotypic evolution with shallow genomic differentiation during early stages of high elevation adaptation in Eurasian Tree Sparrows

Y Qu, C Chen, Y Xiong, H She, YE Zhang… - National science …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Known as the 'third polar region', the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau represents one of the harshest
highland environments in the world and yet a number of organisms thrive there. Previous …

Adaptive traits are maintained on steep selective gradients despite gene flow and hybridization in the intertidal zone

GI Zardi, KR Nicastro, F Canovas, J Ferreira Costa… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Gene flow among hybridizing species with incomplete reproductive barriers blurs species
boundaries, while selection under heterogeneous local ecological conditions or along …

Diverse avian malaria and other haemosporidian parasites in Andean house wrens: evidence for regional co‐diversification by host‐switching

SC Galen, CC Witt - Journal of Avian Biology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research has revealed well over 1000 mtDNA lineages of avian haemosporidian
parasites, but the extent to which this diversity is caused by host–parasite coevolutionary …