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Digest: Linking coordinated shifts in plant resource allocation to a chromosomal inversion *
Author(s) -
Dodsworth Steven,
PérezEscobar Oscar A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/evo.13751
Subject(s) - biology , perennial plant , herbivore , adaptation (eye) , inversion (geology) , underpinning , chromosomal inversion , evolutionary biology , reproduction , gibberellin , ecology , botany , genetics , gene , neuroscience , paleontology , civil engineering , karyotype , structural basin , engineering , chromosome
Local adaptation in plants often requires coordinated shifts among resources. Lowry et al. provide evidence for physiological and genomic mechanisms underpinning adaptive shifts in yellow monkeyflower ( Mimulus guttatus) , such as the transition between annual and perennial life histories. In M. guttatus , differential activity of gibberellins, governed partially by a chromosomal inversion, is responsible for shifts between growth, reproduction, and herbivore defense (secondary compound production).
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