Claim · model-written summary
Mountain railway plants resembled cosmopolitan railway plants phenotypically.
- Taxon
- Arabidopsis arenosa
Arabidopsis arenosat0 - Material
- mountain railway plantse0
- Outcome
- phenotypically similare0
- Comparator
- cosmopolitan cousinse0
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Verbatim
e0“These mountain railway plants are phenotypically similar to their cosmopolitan cousins.”
t0“Arabidopsis arenosa”
Title
Pierre Baduel; Ben Hunter; Sarang Yeola; et al. PLoS Genetics 2018. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1007510
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Selection acted on introgressed alleles in railway Arabidopsis arenosa.
- Observation Selection also acted on rare standing variation.
- Mechanism New mutations may also contribute to railway adaptation.
- Observation FLC showed functionally relevant allelic divergence for flowering time.
- Observation CONSTANS showed functionally relevant allelic divergence for flowering time.
- Observation One selected CONSTANS allele in the secondary colonist came from rare standing variation in mountain populations.
- Observation The other selected CONSTANS allele was introgressed from cosmopolitan railway populations.
- Observation The introgressed allele likely arose in diploid populations over 700 km away.
- Mechanism The authors inferred that ruderal populations could convey alleles and influence local adaptation.