R. S. Brennan

Phenotypic Plasticity Drives Seasonal Thermal Tolerance in a Baltic Copepod

This study shows that phenotypic plasticity, not adaptation, drives seasonal changes in thermal tolerance and body size in Baltic Sea copepods.

Experimental evolution reveals the synergistic genomic mechanisms of adaptation to ocean warming and acidification in a marine copepod

This study identifies genetic variation enabling copepod adaptation to ocean warming, acidification, and their combination over 25 generations, revealing synergistic genomic responses to multiple stressors.

Rapid, but limited, zooplankton adaptation to simultaneous warming and acidification

The paper shows rapid but limited adaptation in copepod populations to combined ocean warming and acidification over 25 generations.

Loss and recovery of transcriptional plasticity after long-term adaptation to global change conditions in a marine copepod

This study shows that long-term adaptation to warming and acidification in marine copepods leads to loss of transcriptional plasticity but allows recovery through genetic adaptation.

Rare genetic variation and balanced polymorphisms are important for survival in global change conditions

The paper identifies adaptive genetic variation in sea urchins under different pH conditions, showing that both common and rare variants are important for survival.

Genome-wide selection scans integrated with association mapping reveal mechanisms of physiological adaptation across a salinity gradient in killifish

The paper integrates genome-wide association studies and selection scans to identify genes underlying physiological adaptation to salinity in killifish, revealing overlap between selected regions and trait-associated loci.