Alternative splicing in seasonal plasticity and the potential for adaptation to environmental change

Little is known about how alternative splicing and other post-transcriptional molecular mechanisms impact plasticity. Steward et al. use transcriptomic and genomic data from the butterfly Bicyclus anynana, finding that splicing plasticity is likely to experience genetic constraints.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rachel A. Steward, Maaike A. de Jong, Vicencio Oostra, Christopher W. Wheat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28306-8