In the journals
Li Z., H.R. Hällingback, S. Abrahamsson, A Fries, B.A. Gull, M.J. Sillanpää and M.R. García-Gil. 2014. Functional multi-locus QTL mapping of temporal trends in Scots pine wood traits. G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics. doi: 10.1534/g3.114.014068.
Two multi-locus functional QTL analysis approaches were proposed and their performances were compared on trait datasets comprising 2 – 9 timepoints, 91 – 455 individual tree measurements and genotype datasets of amplified length polymorphisms (AFLP) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers.
Lawson A.M. and J.T. Weir. 2014. Latitudinal gradients in climatic-niche evolution accelerate trait evolution at high latitudes. Ecology Letters. 17: 1427–1436. doi: 10.1111/ele.12346.
We then tested whether divergence of the climatic-niche was associated with evolution in traits important in ecological differentiation (body mass) and reproductive isolation (song), and found that climatic divergence is associated with faster rates in both measures.
In the news
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