Response to Comment on "Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection"

Adam M Siepielski; Michael B Morrissey; Mathieu Buoro; Stephanie M Carlson; Christina M Caruso; Sonya M Clegg; Tim Coulson; Joseph DiBattista; Kiyoko M Gotanda; Clinton D Francis; Joe Hereford; Joel G Kingsolver; Kate E Augustine; Loeske E B Kruuk; Ryan A Martin; Ben C Sheldon; Nina Sletvold; Erik I Svensson; Michael J Wade; Andrew D C MacColl

doi:10.1126/science.aan5760

Response to Comment on "Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection"

Science. 2018 Jan 26;359(6374):eaan5760. doi: 10.1126/science.aan5760.

Authors

Adam M Siepielski¹, Michael B Morrissey², Mathieu Buoro³, Stephanie M Carlson³, Christina M Caruso⁴, Sonya M Clegg⁵, Tim Coulson⁶, Joseph DiBattista⁷, Kiyoko M Gotanda^{6

8}, Clinton D Francis⁹, Joe Hereford¹⁰, Joel G Kingsolver¹¹, Kate E Augustine¹¹, Loeske E B Kruuk¹², Ryan A Martin¹³, Ben C Sheldon⁵, Nina Sletvold¹⁴, Erik I Svensson¹⁵, Michael J Wade¹⁶, Andrew D C MacColl¹⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA. amsiepie@uark.edu.
² School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
³ Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁶ Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁷ Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.
⁸ Redpath Museum and Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
⁹ Department of Biological Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
¹¹ Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
¹² Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
¹³ Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen, Uppsala, Sweden.
¹⁵ Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
¹⁶ Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
¹⁷ School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

PMID: 29371442
DOI: 10.1126/science.aan5760

Abstract

The comment by Myers-Smith and Myers focuses on three main points: (i) the lack of a mechanistic explanation for climate-selection relationships, (ii) the appropriateness of the climate data used in our analysis, and (iii) our focus on estimating climate-selection relationships across (rather than within) taxonomic groups. We address these critiques in our response.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Climate Change
Climate*
Selection, Genetic*