Evolutionary Applications

🌲 How do Scots pine seedlings cope with drought? 🌱💧A new study combines #high-throughput-phenotyping & genomic modeling to reveal the genetic basis of drought tolerance - laying the groundwork for GWAS, genomic prediction & climate-smart forestry. #ForestResilience

doi.org/10.1111/eva.70157

Climate change is causing mismatches in the timing of animal migrations. A new study on Atlantic salmon reveals the genes behind their return to rivers and how future warming could disrupt their epic journey 🧬🐟

doi.org/10.1111/eva.70148

Genetic Rescue: Evolutionary Applications Evolutionary Applications is an open access evolutionary biology journal, covering questions of health, social and economic significance.

Evolutionary Applications has included our article on assisted gene flow management in response to climate change in a special issue on genetic rescue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1....

Access the article here: doi.org/10.1111/eva....

#Evolution #ClimateChange #Legume #CropWildRelative

New study shows that genetic groups of popular utility dogs excel in social learning and spatial problem-solving 🐶🦮🧬

doi.org/10.1111/eva.70151

How do marine organisms adapt their cell membranes to extreme temperatures? New study on oysters reveals divergent strategies: cold-adapted oysters use shorter lipid chains, while warm-adapted ones modulate unsaturation. Key biomarkers for climate resilience! 🦪🦪

doi.org/10.1111/eva.70156

The almond's past is complex! A new study uses genetics to trace its domestication from a single Middle Eastern origin, with significant contributions from several wild species and recurrent gene flow. These findings are crucial for future conservation and breeding 🌳🧬

doi.org/10.1111/eva....

Genomic data can be used for developing targeted SNP genotyping panels for estimating genomic vulnerability to climate change and demonstrate a novel application of donor and recipient importance analysis for informing freshwater fisheries management 🐟🐟🐟

doi.org/10.1111/eva.70149

📸 Craig Goodwin

New study compares tree planting and natural regeneration in shaping the future of UK woodlands 🌱 Planted trees maintain genetic diversity but risk homogenization, while wild populations may face increased inbreeding 🧬 #Genomics #Afforestation #UKForests #TreePlanting🍃

doi.org/10.1111/eva.70146

Virulence Evolution: Thinking Outside of the Host The main theory of the evolution of virulence relies on a trade-off between virulence and transmission rate. However, it has been difficult to measure the required trade-off. A recent transmission de...

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Using our #transmission framework on #microsporidia parasite lines we found that performance outside the host trades off with increased virulence in #Anopheles
#MicroSky #SymbioSky

We show the importance of parasite ecology to virulence evolution.

Application of Genomic Offsets to Inform Freshwater Fisheries Management Under Climate Change - PubMed Genomic tools are becoming increasingly necessary for mitigating biodiversity loss and guiding management decisions in the context of climate change. Freshwater fish species are particularly susceptib...

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Can genomics help us future-proof fisheries against climate change? This new study applies genomic offsets to kokanee salmon, showing how climate vulnerability maps onto stocking and translocation strategies. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40881941/

Genetic rescue and habitat restoration can boost survival in fragmented Stephens' kangaroo rat (Dipodomys stephensi) populations 🐭🧬

doi.org/10.1111/eva.70152

Come visit us at the Wiley booth at #ESEB2025! Let's talk about Evolutionary Applications and solve any doubts you have! 🧬🌎

The symposium was brilliantly closed by Dr. David Berger with his talk on "Strong Selection, but low repeatability: Temperature-specific effects on genomic predictions of adaptation" #ESEB2025

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ledoux talked about coral heat stress: "Can Mediterranean Gorgonian Populations Cope with Extreme Climatic Events? Insights from Common Garden Experiments and Population Genomics in Paramuricea clavata". A powerful reminder of why this research is crucial 🪸 #ESEB2025

Paulo Aceyo talked about bromeliads and elevational change in his presentation: "A locally adapted neotropical bromeliad shows loss of macrosynteny and expansion of
stress related gene families among individuals along an elevational gradient" 🪴 #ESEB2025

Dr. Aja Tengstedt told us about how climate induced changes in rain fall has created ice layers, so reindeer cannot access food in her talk "Using Landscape Genomics to Predict Climate Change Vulnerability in a Large Mammal Grazer". This is a stark example of climate impacts. 🦌 #ESEB2025

After wild apples, we had an amazing talk about field mustard! Sebastien Geneste talked about "Local Adaptation to Climate in Wild and Feral Brassica rapa: Genetic Architecture and Genetic Offset" 🌱🧬 #ESEB2025

We then had a great talk by Ronan Dadole on "Plasticity, local adaptation and maladaptation to climate in a wild relative of the cultivated apples" 🍎 #ESEB2025

Our guest speaker Prof. Cameron Ghalambor launched our last session with an outstanding talk on "Pleiotropy as a constraint on physiological adaptation to changing environmental conditions" 🧬🌎 @cam-g.bsky.social #ESEB2025

Day 2 of #ESEB2025 🌟
We had some fantastic talks this morning at the Symposium #23 on Evolutionary Genomics & Climate Change 🌱🌎🧬

👨‍🔬 Here's Prof. Luciano Beheregaray, Associate Editor of EVA, reminding everyone of the special issue with Molecular Ecology!

📅 Deadline: February 28, 2026

Such incredible talks at the S23 Symposium today at @eseb2025.bsky.social 🤩

👩‍🔬 Now, come and meet our journal editors of Molecular Ecology Resources, Ecology & Evolution, Evolutionary Applications & Molecular Ecology!

🏃‍♂️ Meet us at the Wiley stand from 5pm-6pm for some refreshments & find out more

Last talk of the day was brilliantly given by Dr. Noora Poikela on "Adaptive introgression enhances heat tolerance despite barriers to gene flow: a case study in Drosophila flavomontana and Drosophila montana" 🪰🪰🪰 #ESEB2025

Next we had Dr. Laure Olazcuaga talking about "Adaptation to Multiple Environmental Stressors in Tetrahymena thermophila" ciliates! 🦠 #ESEB2025

How human impacts affect evolution in the Atlantic salmon? Maria Cadiz Escobar is presenting about "Contrasting contemporary changes in large-effect life history loci in Salmo salar across Europe" right now! 🐟 #ESEB2025

Victoria Gillman's talk on "Local adaptation and forecasting response in the endangered Scottish freshwater pearl mussel" was really insightful! 🤩 #ESEB2025

Great talk by Beatriz Portinha talk on "Effect of temperature on viability selection of developing hybrids revealed by whole genome pool-seq" in mound-building wood ants 🐜🐜🐜 #ESEB2025

What's the future of Mediterranean beech populations? We learned about that in Josep Morando Mila: "Unveiling future maladaptation and preadaptation in locally adapted Mediterranean beech populations under climate change" 🌳🌳🌳 #ESEB2025

Incredible talk by Dr. Nicky Lustenhouwer on "Genomic signals of adaptation during replicate range shifts of the blue-tailed damselfly, Ischnura elegans, in Scotland and Fennoscandia" 🤩 #ESEB2025

We next had Jody Helena Voges's talk on "Cryptic diversity and phylogeographic patterns in Mediterranean acrobat ants (Crematogaster) reveal complex evolutionary histories in response to climate change" 🐜🐜🐜 #ESEB2025

Local adaptation in keystone species! Talk by Dr. Per Unneberg on "Genes that underlie photoreception and seasonal reproduction are crucial for local adaptation in the Northern krill, a keystone zooplankton for the North Atlantic Ocean" 🦐🦐🦐 #ESEB2025