McGill University
Postdoctoral fellow candidate
Supervisor: Rowan Barrett
Start: 2014-02-01
End: 2017-01-01
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Project

The genomics of adaptation de temperature tolerance in the threespine stickleback fish
In the face of global climate change, many species will have to adapt in order to persist in their natural environment. Characterizing the genes responsible of adaptation is highly important for understanding this evolutionary process. I am studying adaptation to temperature regime in a model system for ecology and evolution, the threespine stickleback fish. This species occurs along large latitudinal gradient and therefore faces a great range of temperature, making it an excellent model to study such adaptation. I will sample fish along both west and east coasts of North America. I will perform within and between population crosses and use cutting-edge sequencing technology in order to highlight the portion of the genomes responsible for temperature adaptation.

Keywords

adaptation, genomics, temperature, Threespine stickleback

Publications

1- Weak impact of fine-scale landscape heterogeneity on evolutionary potential inArabidopsis lyrata
Paccard, A., M. Vance, Y. Willi
2013 Journal of Evolutionary Biology

2- Rapid evolution of cold tolerance in stickleback
Barrett, R. D. H., A. Paccard, T. M. Healy, S. Bergek, P. M. Schulte, D. Schluter, S. M. Rogers
2010 Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

3- Latitudinal trait variation and responses to drought in Arabidopsis lyrata
Paccard, Antoine, Alexandre Fruleux, Yvonne Willi
2014 Oecologia

4- Quantitative Genetic Architecture at Latitudinal Range Boundaries: Reduced Variation but Higher Trait Independence
Paccard, Antoine, Josh Van Buskirk, Yvonne Willi
2016 The American Naturalist