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Katie Abson

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PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh interested in evolutionary biology and quantitative genetics 🌱🧬

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I’m excited to share that our preprint is now available on bioRxiv.

We show that levels of additive genetic variation differ systematically among species, with plants in our data exhibiting significantly higher evolvability than animals.

doi.org/10.64898/202...

24.01.2026 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nucleotide diversity is a poor predictor of short-term adaptive potential A capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognised as a global conservation priority. Adaptation requires additive (heritable) genetic variatio...

I'm excited to share that our preprint is now available on bioRxiv! Our study challenges the widespread use of molecular genetic diversity as a predictor adaptive potential, with important implications for how genetic data is used to inform conservation decisions.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

06.01.2026 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

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