Research
Life-history trade-offs explain local adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana
eLife · By Alison Anastasio ·
The Brief
- A multi-year study followed 200 accessions (natural inbred lines) of Swedish Arabidopsis thaliana.
- The study examines which traits are involved in local adaptation and the temporal and spatial scales at which selection acts.
- The article's title attributes local adaptation in these plants to life-history trade-offs.
Why it matters
It offers field-based evidence on how life-history trade-offs can drive local adaptation in a model plant, which bears on how populations may respond to changing environments.
Who’s affected
- evolutionary biologists
- plant ecologists
- #arabidopsis
- #local adaptation
- #life history
- #evolution
- #plant ecology
Local adaptation has been demonstrated in many organisms, but the traits involved and the temporal and spatial scales at which selection acts are generally unknown. We carried out a multi-year study of 200 accessions (natural inbred lines) of Swedish Arabidopsis thaliana using…
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Life-history trade-offs explain local adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana