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Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover

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Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. / Global Urban Evolution Project.
In: Science, Vol. 375, No. 6586, 17.03.2022, p. 1275-1281.

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Global Urban Evolution Project 2022, 'Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover', Science, vol. 375, no. 6586, pp. 1275-1281. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abk098

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Global Urban Evolution Project (2022). Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. Science, 375(6586), 1275-1281. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abk098

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Global Urban Evolution Project. 2022. Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. Science. 375(6586):1275-1281. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abk098

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Global Urban Evolution Project. "Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover". Science. 2022, 375(6586). 1275-1281. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abk098

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Global Urban Evolution Project. Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. Science. 2022 Mar 17;375(6586):1275-1281. doi: 10.1126/science.abk098

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Global Urban Evolution Project. / Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. In: Science. 2022 ; Vol. 375, No. 6586. pp. 1275-1281.

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TY - JOUR

T1 - Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover

AU - Global Urban Evolution Project

AU - Jarrett, Benjamin

PY - 2022/3/17

Y1 - 2022/3/17

N2 - Urbanization transforms environments in ways that alter biological evolution. We examined whether urban environmental change drives parallel evolution by sampling 110,019 white clover plants from 6169 populations in 160 cities globally. Plants were assayed for a Mendelian antiherbivore defense that also affects tolerance to abiotic stressors. Urban-rural gradients were associated with the evolution of clines in defense in 47% of cities throughout the world. Variation in the strength of clines was explained by environmental changes in drought stress and vegetation cover that varied among cities. Sequencing 2074 genomes from 26 cities revealed that the evolution of urban-rural clines was best explained by adaptive evolution, but the degree of parallel adaptation varied among cities. Our results demonstrate that urbanization leads to adaptation at a global scale.

AB - Urbanization transforms environments in ways that alter biological evolution. We examined whether urban environmental change drives parallel evolution by sampling 110,019 white clover plants from 6169 populations in 160 cities globally. Plants were assayed for a Mendelian antiherbivore defense that also affects tolerance to abiotic stressors. Urban-rural gradients were associated with the evolution of clines in defense in 47% of cities throughout the world. Variation in the strength of clines was explained by environmental changes in drought stress and vegetation cover that varied among cities. Sequencing 2074 genomes from 26 cities revealed that the evolution of urban-rural clines was best explained by adaptive evolution, but the degree of parallel adaptation varied among cities. Our results demonstrate that urbanization leads to adaptation at a global scale.

U2 - 10.1126/science.abk098

DO - 10.1126/science.abk098

M3 - Article

VL - 375

SP - 1275

EP - 1281

JO - Science

JF - Science

SN - 0036-8075

IS - 6586

ER -