Some like it hot: the genetics of rapid adaptation to climate change

这个项目通过利用在高度入侵和农业上有重要意义的杂草中在无与伦比的时间和空间尺度上采样的基因组来研究快速进化适应的遗传学。该项目希望通过开发新的理论和基因组预测，然后在现实的田间条件下测试它们，来产生关于促进适应气候变化的遗传机制的新知识。预期结果包括更深入地理解适应的遗传基础，以及预测气候变化的进化后果的强大框架。这应该会带来显著的好处，包括提高预测气候变化对有害和受威胁物种的影响的能力。

This project investigates the genetics of rapid evolutionary adaptation by utilising genomes sampled over unparalleled temporal and spatial scales in a highly invasive and agriculturally significant weed. This project expects to generate new knowledge about the genetic mechanisms that facilitate adaptation to climate change by developing new theory and genomic predictions, and then testing them under realistic field conditions. Expected outcomes include a deeper understanding of the genetic basis of adaptation, and a powerful framework to predict the evolutionary consequences of climate change. This should provide significant benefits, including improved capacity to anticipate the effects of climate change on noxious and threatened species.