The use of non-lethal sampling for transcriptomics to assess the physiological status of wild fishes

KM Jeffries, A Teffer, S Michaleski, NJ Bernier… - … and Physiology Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fishes respond to different abiotic and biotic stressors through changes in gene expression
as a part of an integrated physiological response. Transcriptomics approaches have been …

Extreme environments and the origins of biodiversity: adaptation and speciation in sulphide spring fishes

M Tobler, JL Kelley, M Plath, R Riesch - Molecular ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organisms adapted to physiochemical stressors provide ideal systems to study evolutionary
mechanisms that drive adaptation and speciation. This review study focuses on livebearing …

Epigenetic inheritance of DNA methylation changes in fish living in hydrogen sulfide–rich springs

JL Kelley, M Tobler, D Beck… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Environmental factors can promote phenotypic variation through alterations in the
epigenome and facilitate adaptation of an organism to the environment. Although hydrogen …

Nascent transcription reveals regulatory changes in extremophile fishes inhabiting hydrogen sulfide-rich environments

BW Perry, KL McGowan… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Regulating transcription allows organisms to respond to their environment, both within a
single generation (plasticity) and across generations (adaptation). We examined …

Selection on standing genetic variation mediates convergent evolution in extremophile fish

K Ryan, R Greenway, J Landers… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogen sulfide is a toxic gas that disrupts numerous biological processes, including
energy production in the mitochondria, yet fish in the Poecilia mexicana species complex …

Genetic assimilation of ancestral plasticity during parallel adaptation to zinc contamination in Silene uniflora

DP Wood, JA Holmberg, OG Osborne… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Phenotypic plasticity in ancestral populations is hypothesized to facilitate adaptation, but
evidence is piecemeal and often contradictory. Further, whether ancestral plasticity …

Impacts of heavy metal pollution on the ionomes and transcriptomes of Western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)

JL Coffin, JL Kelley, PD Jeyasingh… - Molecular ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of the mechanisms mediating the resilience of organisms to
environmental change remains lacking. Heavy metals negatively affect processes at all …

Among‐family variation in survival and gene expression uncovers adaptive genetic variation in a threatened fish

AM Harder, JR Willoughby, WR Ardren… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Variation in among‐family transcriptional responses to different environmental conditions
can help to identify adaptive genetic variation, even prior to a selective event. Coupling …

Restoring ancestral phenotypes is a general pattern in gene expression evolution during adaptation to new environments in Tribolium castaneum

EL Koch, F Guillaume - Molecular ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plasticity and evolution are two processes allowing populations to respond to environmental
changes, but how both are related and impact each other remains controversial. We studied …

Mitochondria and the origin of species: bridging genetic and ecological perspectives on speciation processes

M Tobler, N Barts, R Greenway - Integrative and Comparative …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondria have been known to be involved in speciation through the generation of
Dobzhansky–Muller incompatibilities, where functionally neutral co-evolution between …