The Dynamic of seasonal adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana

These animated graphs are supporting informations to the article by Fournier-Level et al. (2016) PNAS.

You can browse through the evolution of an experimental population of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, adapting to different climates. If there is some issues with the videos, the page works best using Google Chrome.

- The top left pannel shows how the selected trait (by default seed number, the best proxy for fitness in our experiment, evolves over time across replicated simuations. This can either be visualized in absolute term, or relative to the 2001 population to focus on differential evolution

- The bottom left pannel shows the standardized reaction norms for the trait, which tell in which season and at which time the trait has reached its extreme values.

- The right pannel shows how specific alleles of genes present with different initial frequencies on the x-axis, go to fixation when adaptive selection is acting.