ArticleScience advances2021
Predicting future from past: The genomic basis of recurrent and rapid stickleback evolution.
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- Dissecting Fluctuating Selection: A Unified Population and Quantitative Genetics Framework.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Genomic Signatures of Selection Are Enriched in Differentially Expressed Genes in Sticklebacks Adapting to Contrasting Environments.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Rapid floral syndrome convergence inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Constitutive and inducible fibrosis explain immune variation among threespine stickleback populations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The genomic architecture of local adaptation in two connected populations of three-spined stickleback.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Article
- Variable jackpot individuals provide most alleles for repeated, rapid adaptation to freshwater by anadromous Threespine Stickleback.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- A near telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of the Amur stickleback (Zoological research · 2026Article
- Variations in DNA Methylation Are Landmarks of Freshwater Adaptation in Three-Spined Sticklebacks.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Reply to MacColl: Repeated evolution from standing genetic variation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Rapid and repeated evolution of myosin copy number in threespine stickleback.Current biology : CB · 2026Article
- Complex Patterns of Hitchhiking Mutation Load Among Stickleback Populations.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Rare jackpot individuals drive rapid adaptation in Threespine Stickleback.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- A chromosome-level reference genome assembly for Gilbert's skink Plestiodon gilberti.The Journal of heredity · 2026Article
- Shared and Unique Patterns of Genomic Differentiation and Introgression Between Japanese Stickleback Species Across Three Sympatric Sites.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Rapid and repeated evolution of myosin copy number in threespine stickleback.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- An Evolutionary Mosaic Challenges Traditional Monitoring of a Foundation Species in a Coastal Environment-The Baltic Fucus vesiculosus.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
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19 authors at 12 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Similar forms often evolve repeatedly in nature, raising long-standing questions about the underlying mechanisms. Here, we use repeated evolution in stickleback to identify a large set of genomic loci that change recurrently during colonization of freshwater habitats by marine fish. The same loci used repeatedly in extant populations also show rapid allele frequency changes when new freshwater populations are experimentally established from marine ancestors. Marked genotypic and phenotypic changes arise within 5 years, facilitated by standing genetic variation and linkage between adaptive regions. Both the speed and location of changes can be predicted using empirical observations of recurrence in natural populations or fundamental genomic features like allelic age, recombination rates, density of divergent loci, and overlap with mapped traits. A composite model trained on these stickleback features can also predict the location of key evolutionary loci in Darwin's finches, suggesting that similar features are important for evolution across diverse taxa.
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