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Population Genetics/Genomics Colicchio, Jack [1], Anderson, Ian [2], Blackman, Benjamin [3]. Natural variation for within and between generation plasticityto hot days and cold nights in Mimulus laciniatus. Temperature varies greatly across both space and time, directly impacts metabolism, and imparts strong selective pressures across the diversity of life. Along with directly impacting development, the ambient temperature can also be used as a cue for daily, seasonal, and annual fluctuations. Mimulus laciniatus is native to the Sierra Nevada mountain range, a region of the western US that features some of the steepest temperature gradients and largest daily and seasonal temperature fluctations. Additionally, this region of the US experiences extremely high "interannual temperature autocorrelation", that is to say hot years tend to be followed by hot years, and cold by cold. Theory, modeling, and intuition suggest that in these circumstances the right ingrediants exist for vast natural variation for within and between generation plasticity to temperature, and that this may have profound roles on the ability for this and similar species to cope with the rapidly changing climate currently facing our planet.
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1 - UC Berkeley, Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
2 - University Of California, Berkeley, Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall , #3102, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
3 - University Of California, Berkeley, Plant And Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall #3102, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
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Presentation Type: Oral Paper
Session: 47, Population Genetics and Genomics II
Location: 101/Mayo Civic Center
Date: Wednesday, July 25th, 2018
Time: 2:45 PM
Number: 47006
Abstract ID:891
Candidate for Awards:None |
