Science (New York, N.Y.)AcclimatizationAdaptationPhysiologicalAllelesBiological Evolution
Ancient alleles drive contemporary climate adaptation in an alpine plant.
Simone Fior, Hirzi Luqman, Mathias Scharmann, Aksel Pålsson, Jennifer de Jonge, Stefan Zoller, Niklaus Zemp, Domenico Gargano, Daniel Wegmann, Alex Widmer
Published: 202510.1126/science.adp5717
Abstract
Adaptive evolution is key for species to persist in a warming climate. However, how adaptive genetic variants arise and shape both past and future evolutionary trajectories remains largely unknown. In this work, we integrate genomics with functional…
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