Publications by authors named "Florent Sylvestre"
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- Genomic structural variants (SVs) play a key role in the genetic diversity and evolutionary processes of organisms, but they are often difficult to detect in wild populations due to limitations in short-read sequencing data.
- The study focused on Atlantic salmon populations in Québec, analyzing SVs, SNPs, and small indels to understand their contributions to local adaptation in traits like growth and maturity.
- By utilizing both short and long-read sequencing, the researchers identified a significant number of variants and found that genes near these SVs may influence traits related to nervous system development, potentially impacting smoltification age.
Differences between sexes in trait fitness optima can generate intralocus sexual conflicts that have the potential to maintain genetic diversity through balancing selection. However, these differences are unlikely to be associated with strong selective coefficients and are challenging to detect. Additionally, recent studies have highlighted that duplications on sexual chromosomes can create artifactual signals of intralocus sexual conflicts.
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