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Povzetek: The risk of climate maladaptation is increasing for numerous species, including trees. Developing robust methods to assess population maladaptation remains a critical challenge. Genomic offset approaches aim to predict climate maladaptation by characterizing the genomic changes required for populations to maintain their fitness under changing climates. In this study, we assessed the risk of climate maladaptation in European populations of English yew (Taxus baccata), a long-lived tree with a patchy distribution across Europe, the Atlas Mountains, and the Near East, where many populations are small or threatened. We found evidence suggesting local climate adaptation by analyzing 8616 SNPs in 475 trees from 29 European T. baccata populations, with climate explaining 18.1% of genetic variance and 100 unlinked climate-associated loci identified via genotype-environment association (GEA). Then, we evaluated the deviation of populations from the overall gene-climate association to assess variability in local adaptation or different adaptation trajectories across populations and found the highest deviations in low latitude populations. Moreover, we predicted genomic offsets and successfully validated these predictions using phenotypic traits assessed in plants from 26 populations grown in a comparative experiment. Finally, we integrated information from current local adaptation, genomic offset, historical genetic differentiation, and effective migration rates to show that Mediterranean and high-elevation T. baccata populations face higher vulnerability to climate change than low-elevation Atlantic and continental populations. Our study demonstrates the practical use of the genomic offset framework in conservation genetics, offers insights for its further development, and highlights the need for a population-centered approach that incorporates additional statistics and data sources to credibly assess climate vulnerability in wild plant populations.
Ključne besede: climate change , genomic offset , genotype- environment association , local adaptation , Taxus baccata
Objavljeno v DiRROS: 10.10.2025; Ogledov: 234; Prenosov: 99
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Povzetek: The effect of past environmental changes on the demography and genetic diversity of natural populations remains a contentious issue and has rarely been investigated across multiple, phylogenetically distant species. Here, we perform comparative population genomic analyses and demographic inferences for seven widely distributed and ecologically contrasting European forest tree species based on concerted sampling of 164 populations across their natural ranges. For all seven species, the effective population size, Ne, increased or remained stable over many glacial cycles and up to 15 million years in the most extreme cases. Surprisingly, the drastic environmental changes associated with the Pleistocene glacial cycles have had little impact on the level of genetic diversity of dominant forest tree species, despite major shifts in their geographic ranges. Based on their trajectories of Ne over time, the seven tree species can be divided into three major groups, highlighting the importance of life history and range size in determining synchronous variation in genetic diversity over time. Altogether, our results indicate that forest trees have been able to retain their evolutionary potential over very long periods of time despite strong environmental changes.
Ključne besede: genetic diversity, forest trees, environmental changes
Objavljeno v DiRROS: 29.10.2024; Ogledov: 702; Prenosov: 748
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Povzetek: This dataset contains the gene sequence variation data (vcf files and their tbi index files) of seven forest tree species used in the manuscript "Synchronous effective population size changes and genetic stability of forest trees through glacial cycles". For each species, between 411 and 651 genotyped trees are included, sampled across Europe in at least 20 locations. Several versions are provided. Species included: Pinus sylvestris, Picea abies, Fagus sylvatica, Populus nigra, Quercus petraea, Pinus pinaster, Betula pendula
Ključne besede: gene sequence, variation data, data set
Objavljeno v DiRROS: 07.03.2023; Ogledov: 1584; Prenosov: 1755
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