Nunney, Leonard
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Evolving to become bigger and/or longer lived should increase cancer susceptibility, but this predicted increase is not observed, a contradiction named Peto's paradox. A solution is that cancer suppression evolves to minimize cancer susceptibility, and the discovery of 19 retrogene (RTG) copies of the tumor suppressor gene TP53 in the African eleph...
Qu, Jiao Bonte, Dries Vandegehuchte, Martijn L
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Urban environments provide challenging conditions for species survival, including increased temperatures, drought and pollution. Species can deal with these conditions through evolution across generations or the immediate expression of phenotypic plasticity. The resulting phenotypic changes are key to the performance of species and their interactio...
Kane, Adam Ayllón, Daniel O'Sullivan, Ronan James McGinnity, Philip Reed, Thomas Eric
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Males and females are often subject to different and even opposing selection pressures. When a given trait has a shared genetic basis between the sexes, sexual conflict (antagonism) can arise. This can result in significant individual-level fitness consequences that might also affect population performance, whilst anthropogenic environmental change...
Skaien, Cora L Arcese, Peter
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A capacity for rapid adaptation should enhance the persistence of populations subject to temporal and spatial heterogeneity in natural selection, but examples from nature remain scarce. Plectritis congesta (Caprifoliaceae) is a winter annual that exhibits local adaptation to browsing by ungulates and hypothesized to show context-dependent trade-off...
Rayne, Aisling Blair, Stephanie Dale, Matthew Flack, Brendan Hollows, John Moraga, Roger Parata, Riki N Rupene, Makarini Tamati-Elliffe, Paulette Wehi, Priscilla M
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Relationships with place provide critical context for characterizing biocultural diversity. Yet, genetic and genomic studies are rarely informed by Indigenous or local knowledge, processes, and practices, including the movement of culturally significant species. Here, we show how place-based knowledge can better reveal the biocultural complexities ...
Di, Binyin Firn, Jennifer Buckley, Yvonne M Lomas, Kate Pausas, Juli G Smith, Annabel L
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The invasive grass-fire cycle is a widely documented feedback phenomenon in which invasive grasses increase vegetation flammability and fire frequency, resulting in further invasion and compounded effects on fire regimes. Few studies have examined the role of short-term adaptation in driving the invasive grass-fire cycle, despite invasive species o...
Alderley, Carrie Louise Greenrod, Samuel Terrence Edwards Friman, Ville-Petri
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Crop losses to plant pathogens are a growing threat to global food security and more effective control strategies are urgently required. Biofumigation, an agricultural technique where Brassica plant tissues are mulched into soils to release antimicrobial plant allelochemicals called isothiocyanates (ITCs), has been proposed as an environmentally fr...
Bouchard, Raphaël Wellband, Kyle Lecomte, Laurie Bernatchez, Louis April, Julien
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Captive-breeding programs are among the most adopted conservation practices to mitigate the loss of biodiversity, including genetic diversity. However, both genetic and nongenetic changes occurring in captivity can reduce the fitness of supplemented individuals, which complicate rehabilitation efforts. In the case of Atlantic salmon, the intensity ...
Janzen, Garrett M Aguilar-Rangel, María Rocío Cíntora-Martínez, Carolina Blöcher-Juárez, Karla Azucena González-Segovia, Eric Studer, Anthony J Runcie, Daniel E Flint-Garcia, Sherry A Rellán-Álvarez, Rubén Sawers, Ruairidh J H
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Populations are locally adapted when they exhibit higher fitness than foreign populations in their native habitat. Maize landrace adaptations to highland and lowland conditions are of interest to researchers and breeders. To determine the prevalence and strength of local adaptation in maize landraces, we performed a reciprocal transplant experiment...
Besnier, Francois Ayllon, Fernando Skaala, Øystein Solberg, Monica Favnebøe Fjeldheim, Per Tommy Anderson, Kaja Knutar, Sofie Glover, Kevin Alan
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The release of domesticated conspecifics into the natural environment, whether deliberate or accidental, has the potential to alter the genetic integrity and evolutionary trajectory of wild populations. This widespread challenge is of particular concern for wild Atlantic salmon. By investigating phenotypic differences between the offspring of domes...
