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Introduction Understanding how populations adapt to changing environments is of fundamental importance for assessing their evolutionary and ecological dynamics, and for predicting population resilience to climate change. Full size image. Results Seasonal plasticity across the transcriptome In order to understand how the shared genome is deployed differently across the seasonal environments to produce the distinct phenotypic morphs, we analysed the transcriptional architecture of plasticity.

Discussion The role plasticity plays in enhancing or constraining adaptive potential has been discussed extensively in the literature e. Methods Study organism and experimental design We used a captive laboratory population of B. De novo transcriptome assembly and annotation Transcriptome assembly used Trinity v.

Mapping and transcript abundance estimation We mapped trimmed reads against our filtered transcriptome using Bowtie2 v. Robustness of results to filtering and mapping approaches In order to exclude the possibility that our results would be biased by the choice of transcriptome filtering, mapping, transcript abundance estimation, or expression filtering strategy, we repeated differential expression analyses a without the low-expression filter, b using different reference transcriptome filtering, mapping and abundance estimation approaches, and c with an additional fold change 2 threshold for significant differential expression.

Differential expression analysis For thorax and abdomen separately, we performed differential expression analyses in edgeR v. Expression reaction norms and other downstream analyses For downstream analyses, we normalised expression data in edgeR v. Comparisons with Pieris rapae In order to identify B. References 1. Article Google Scholar 3. Article Google Scholar 4. Article Google Scholar 8. Article PubMed Google Scholar Article Google Scholar Author information Author notes These authors contributed equally: Bas J.

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