Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Cis-regulatory evolution spotlights species differences in the adaptive potential of gene expression plasticity

  • F. He,
  • K. A. Steige,
  • V. Kovacova,
  • U. Göbel,
  • M. Bouzid,
  • P. D. Keightley,
  • A. Beyer,
  • J. de Meaux

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23558-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Plasticity allows organisms to respond to environmental change. Here the authors compare the distribution of cis-regulatory variants in the transcriptomes of Arabidopsis lyrata and A. halleriafter exposure to stress, to trace the role of polygenic selection in the evolution of gene expression plasticity.