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ArticleNature communications2023

Large haploblocks underlie rapid adaptation in the invasive weed Ambrosia artemisiifolia.

Paul Battlay, Jonathan Wilson, Vanessa C Bieker, Christopher Lee, Diana Prapas, Bent Petersen, Sam Craig, Lotte van Boheemen, Romain Scalone, Nissanka P de Silva and 7 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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17 authors.

Paul Battlay *School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Jonathan Wilson *School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0454-9178
Vanessa C BiekerDepartment of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-2061-9041
Christopher LeeSchool of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Diana PrapasSchool of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Bent PetersenCenter for Evolutionary Hologenomics, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sam CraigSchool of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2723-3624
Lotte van BoheemenSchool of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Romain ScaloneDepartment of Crop Production Ecology, Uppsala Ecology Center, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-9687-8584
Nissanka P de SilvaSchool of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Amit SharmaCell, Molecular Biology and Genomics Group, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
Bojan KonstantinovićDepartment of Environmental and Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Kristin A NurkowskiSchool of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Loren H RiesebergDepartment of Botany and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Tim ConnallonSchool of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Michael D MartinDepartment of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-2010-5139
Kathryn A HodginsSchool of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. kathryn.hodgins@monash.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2795-5213

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adaptation is the central feature and leading explanation for the evolutionary diversification of life. Adaptation is also notoriously difficult to study in nature, owing to its complexity and logistically prohibitive timescale. Here, we leverage extensive contemporary and historical collections of Ambrosia artemisiifolia-an aggressively invasive weed and primary cause of pollen-induced hayfever-to track the phenotypic and genetic causes of recent local adaptation across its native and invasive ranges in North America and Europe, respectively. Large haploblocks-indicative of chromosomal inversions-contain a disproportionate share (26%) of genomic regions conferring parallel adaptation to local climates between ranges, are associated with rapidly adapting traits, and exhibit dramatic frequency shifts over space and time. These results highlight the importance of large-effect standing variants in rapid adaptation, which have been critical to A. artemisiifolia's global spread across vast climatic gradients.

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AmbrosiaPlant WeedsAcclimatizationAdaptation, PhysiologicalBiological Evolution

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PMID36973251
PMCPMC10042993

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