Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Arctic introgression and chromatin regulation facilitated rapid Qinghai-Tibet Plateau colonization by an avian predator

  • Li Hu,
  • Juan Long,
  • Yi Lin,
  • Zhongru Gu,
  • Han Su,
  • Xuemin Dong,
  • Zhenzhen Lin,
  • Qian Xiao,
  • Nyambayar Batbayar,
  • Batbayar Bold,
  • Lucia Deutschová,
  • Sergey Ganusevich,
  • Vasiliy Sokolov,
  • Aleksandr Sokolov,
  • Hardip R. Patel,
  • Paul D. Waters,
  • Jennifer Ann Marshall Graves,
  • Andrew Dixon,
  • Shengkai Pan,
  • Xiangjiang Zhan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34138-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is as cold as the Arctic, but presents unique hypoxia and high ultraviolet conditions. Here the authors find that gene flow from Arctic gyrfalcons aids plateau saker falcons’ cold adaptation, and independent non-coding genomic changes underlie hypoxic and ultraviolet responses.