Land use and life history constrain adaptive genetic variation and reduce the capacity for climate change adaptation in turtles.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rapid anthropogenic climate change will require species to adapt to shifting environmental conditions, with successful adaptation dependent upon current patterns of genetic variation. While landscape genomic approaches allow for exploration of local adaptation in non-model systems, most landscape genomics studies of adaptive capacity are limited to exploratory identification of potentially important functional genes, often without a priori expectations as to the gene functions that may be most important for climate change responses. In this study, we integrated targeted sequencing of genes of known function and genotyping of single-nucleotide polymorphisms to examine spatial, environmental, and species-specific patterns of potential local adaptation in two co-occuring tu

SUBMITTER: Byer NW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8603537 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature