Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Alternative splicing in seasonal plasticity and the potential for adaptation to environmental change

  • Rachel A. Steward,
  • Maaike A. de Jong,
  • Vicencio Oostra,
  • Christopher W. Wheat

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28306-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Little is known about how alternative splicing and other post-transcriptional molecular mechanisms impact plasticity. Steward et al. use transcriptomic and genomic data from the butterfly Bicyclus anynana, finding that splicing plasticity is likely to experience genetic constraints.