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CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE DURING THE ADAPTATION TO SIMILAR ENVIRONMENTS BY AN AUSTRALIAN GROUNDSEL

Overview of attention for article published in Evolution, May 2013
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Title
CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE DURING THE ADAPTATION TO SIMILAR ENVIRONMENTS BY AN AUSTRALIAN GROUNDSEL
Published in
Evolution, May 2013
DOI 10.1111/evo.12136
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Authors

Federico Roda, Huanle Liu, Melanie J. Wilkinson, Gregory M. Walter, Maddie E. James, Diana M. Bernal, Maria C. Melo, Andrew Lowe, Loren H. Rieseberg, Peter Prentis, Daniel Ortiz‐Barrientos

Abstract

Adaptation to replicate environments is often achieved through similar phenotypic solutions. Whether selection also produces convergent genomic changes in these situations remains largely unknown. The variable groundsel, Senecio lautus, is an excellent system to investigate the genetic underpinnings of convergent evolution, because morphologically similar forms of these plants have adapted to the same environments along the coast of Australia. We compared range-wide patterns of genomic divergence in natural populations of this plant and searched for regions putatively affected by natural selection. Our results indicate that environmental adaptation followed complex genetic trajectories, affecting multiple loci, implying both the parallel recruitment of the same alleles and the divergence of completely different genomic regions across geography. An analysis of the biological functions of candidate genes suggests that adaptation to coastal environments may have occurred through the recruitment of different genes participating in similar processes. The relatively low genetic convergence that characterizes the parallel evolution of S. lautus forms suggests that evolution is more constrained at higher levels of biological organization.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 3 2%
United States 3 2%
Colombia 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 112 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 29%
Researcher 29 23%
Professor > Associate Professor 10 8%
Student > Bachelor 9 7%
Student > Master 8 6%
Other 20 16%
Unknown 12 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 89 72%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 14 11%
Environmental Science 3 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 <1%
Social Sciences 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 15 12%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 November 2021.
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#5,309,230
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