Adaptive differentiation of Festuca rubra along a climate gradient revealed by molecular markers and quantitative traits

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17310%2F18%3AA1901ZEG" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17310/18:A1901ZEG - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/18:00493308 RIV/00216208:11310/18:10389653

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0194670" target="_blank" >https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0194670</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194670" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0194670</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Adaptive differentiation of Festuca rubra along a climate gradient revealed by molecular markers and quantitative traits

Original language description

Species response to climate change is influenced by predictable (selective) and unpredictable (random) evolutionary processes. To understand how climate change will affect present-day species, it is necessary to assess their adaptive potential and distinguish it from the effects of random processes. This will allow predicting how different genotypes will respond to forecasted environmental change. Space for time substitution experiments are an elegant way to test the response of present day populations to climate variation in real time. Here we assess neutral and putatively adaptive variation in 11 populations of Festuca rubra situated along crossed gradients of temperature and moisture using molecular markers and phenotypic measurements, respectively. By comparing population differentiation in putatively neutral molecular markers and phenotypic traits (QST-FST comparisons), we show the existence of adaptive differentiation in phenotypic traits and their plasticity across the climatic gradient. The observed patterns of differentiation are due to the high genotypic and phenotypic differentiation of the populations from the coldest (and wettest) environment. Finally, we observe statistically significant covariation between markers and phenotypic traits, which is likely caused by isolation by adaptation. These results contribute to a better understanding of the current adaptation and evolutionary potential to face climate change of a widespread species. They can also be extrapolated to understand how the studied populations will adjust to upcoming climate change without going through the lengthy process of phenotyping.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10603 - Genetics and heredity (medical genetics to be 3)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-07795S" target="_blank" >GA15-07795S: The role of genetic and epigenetic changes and trait variation in adaptation of a clonal plant to changing climate</a><br>

Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLOS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

04.2018

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

e0194670

UT code for WoS article

000429203800043

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85045056142