ArticleMolecular ecology2020
Genomic signatures of convergent adaptation to Alpine environments in three Brassicaceae species.
Article in Molecular ecology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Genomic basis of adaptation to serpentine soil in two Alyssum species shows convergence with Arabidopsis across 20 million years of divergence.Annals of botany · 2026Article
- Chloroplast Phylogenomics and Evolutionary History of the Alpine EndemicInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Genomic history and ecology of local adaptation in sky-islandbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Regulatory architecture of high-altitude adaptation in Artemisia: from signal perception to specialized metabolism.Plant cell reports · 2026Review
- Genomic insights into alpine plant adaptation.Plant diversity · 2026Review
- Genomic Exploration of Climate-driven Evolution and Evolutionary Convergence in Forest Pathogens.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Convergent evolution in angiosperms adapted to cold climates.Plant communications · 2025Review
- Contrasting levels of transcriptome-wide SNP diversity and adaptive molecular variation among conifers.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- The trichome pattern diversity of Cardamine shares genetic mechanisms with Arabidopsis but differs in environmental drivers.Plant physiology · 2024Article
- The genetic architecture of repeated local adaptation to climate in distantly related plants.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Evidence for Admixture and Rapid Evolution During Glacial Climate Change in an Alpine Specialist.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Polygenic routes lead to parallel altitudinal adaptation in Heliosperma pusillum (Caryophyllaceae).Molecular ecology · 2023Article
- Arabis alpina: A perennial model plant for ecological genomics and life-history evolution.Molecular ecology resources · 2022Review
- Investigation ofHorticulture research · 2022Article
- Genomic basis of parallel adaptation varies with divergence inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Genomic signatures of convergent adaptation to Alpine environments in three Brassicaceae species.Molecular ecology · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
It has long been discussed to what extent related species develop similar genetic mechanisms to adapt to similar environments. Most studies documenting such convergence have either used different lineages within species or surveyed only a limited portion of the genome. Here, we investigated whether similar or different sets of orthologous genes were involved in genetic adaptation of natural populations of three related plant species to similar environmental gradients in the Alps. We used whole-genome pooled population sequencing to study genome-wide SNP variation in 18 natural populations of three Brassicaceae (Arabis alpina, Arabidopsis halleri, and Cardamine resedifolia) from the Swiss Alps. We first de novo assembled draft reference genomes for all three species. We then ran population and landscape genomic analyses with ~3 million SNPs per species to look for shared genomic signatures of selection and adaptation in response to similar environmental gradients acting on these species. Genes with a signature of convergent adaptation were found at significantly higher numbers than expected by chance. The most closely related species pair showed the highest relative over-representation of shared adaptation signatures. Moreover, the identified genes of convergent adaptation were enriched for nonsynonymous mutations, suggesting functional relevance of these genes, even though many of the identified candidate genes have hitherto unknown or poorly described functions based on comparison with Arabidopsis thaliana. We conclude that adaptation to heterogeneous Alpine environments in related species is partly driven by convergent evolution, but that most of the genomic signatures of adaptation remain species-specific.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.