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Potential for adaptation to climate change: family-level variation in fitness-related traits and their responses to heat waves in a snail population.

Katja LeichtKatri SeppäläOtto Seppälä
Published in: BMC evolutionary biology (2017)
Our results suggest that there is genetic potential for adaptation within both thermal environments and that trait evolution may not be strongly affected by trade-offs between them. However, rare differences in thermal reaction norms across families indicate limited evolutionary potential in the responses of snails to changing temperatures during extreme weather events.
Keyphrases
  • climate change
  • genome wide
  • human health
  • physical activity
  • dna methylation
  • signaling pathway
  • heat stress
  • copy number
  • drug induced