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Determine how transcriptomic similarity in light use and harvesting genes influences seedling survival across local forest neighborhoods.

March 28, 2017Trends in Ecology & EvolutionOpen Access

Forests and Their Canopies: Achievements and Horizons in Canopy Science

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Determine how transcriptomic similarity in light use and harvesting genes influences seedling survival across local forest neighborhoods.
Sequenced community-wide transcriptomes of co-occurring tree species in a subtropical forest in China to assess shared homologous genes across 15 light-use gene ontologies.
Constructed neighborhood generalized linear mixed-effects models to evaluate seedling survival against local transcriptomic, functional trait, and phylogenetic composition.
Neighborhood similarity in three of the 15 evaluated light-use gene ontologies was significantly associated with seedling survival rates.
Seedling survival increased for two gene ontologies when neighboring trees possessed similar gene tree composition, indicating performance hierarchies and abiotic filtering.

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Ecological study reveals that transcriptomic similarity in light use genes predicts seedling survival in subtropical trees, suggesting abiotic filtering shapes forest community structure.

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Nakamura et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d7cf2361e2ce1627d181b6 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.02.020

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Ecological study reveals that transcriptomic similarity in light use genes predicts seedling survival in subtropical trees, suggesting abiotic filtering shapes forest community structure.

Forests and Their Canopies: Achievements and Horizons in Canopy Science

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Forests and Their Canopies: Achievements and Horizons in Canopy Science

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