In absence of local adaptation, plasticity and spatially varying selection rule:a view from genomic reaction norms in a panmictic species (Anguilla rostrata)

• Published in: BMC Genomics
• Main Authors: Cote, Caroline L., Castonguay, Martin, Kalujnaia, McWilliam Svetlana, Cramb, Gordon, Bernatchez, Louis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Anguilla; Panmixia; Trancriptome; Microarrays; Genomic reaction norm; Plasticity; Gene-environment interactions; Conservation; St-Lawrence-river; Transport protein expression; Endangered European eel; American eel; Gene-expression; Phenotypic plasticity; Life-history; Habitat use; Glass eel; Developmental plasticity; Lawrence River; European eel
• Online Access: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/researchoutput/in-absence-of-local-adaptation-plasticity-and-spatially-varying-selection-rule(fe26a795-3324-42b2-8e68-37e3502dfe62).html; https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-403; https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/5116/1/Cramb_2014_BMCG_InAbsence.pdf

Background: American eel (Anguilla rostrata) is one of the few species for which panmixia has been demonstrated at the scale of the entire species. As such, the development of long term local adaptation is impossible. However, both plasticity and spatially varying selection have been invoked in expl...