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A rainfall-manipulation experiment with 517 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions

View ORCID ProfileMoises Exposito-Alonso, Rocío Gámez Rodríguez, Cristina Barragán, Giovanna Capovilla, Eunyoung Chae, Jane Devos, Ezgi S. Dogan, Claudia Friedemann, Caspar Gross, Patricia Lang, Derek Lundberg, Vera Middendorf, Jorge Kageyama, Talia Karasov, Sonja Kersten, Sebastian Petersen, Leily Rabbani, Julian Regalado, Lukas Reinelt, Beth Rowan, Danelle K. Seymour, Efthymia Symeonidi, Rebecca Schwab, Diep Thi Ngoc Tran, Kavita Venkataramani, Anna-Lena Van de Weyer, François Vasseur, George Wang, Ronja Wedegärtner, Frank Weiss, Rui Wu, Wanyan Xi, Maricris Zaidem, Wangsheng Zhu, Fernando García-Arenal, Hernán A. Burbano, Oliver Bossdorf, View ORCID ProfileDetlef Weigel
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/186767
Moises Exposito-Alonso
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Rocío Gámez Rodríguez
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Cristina Barragán
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Giovanna Capovilla
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Eunyoung Chae
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Jane Devos
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Ezgi S. Dogan
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Claudia Friedemann
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Caspar Gross
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Patricia Lang
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Derek Lundberg
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Vera Middendorf
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Jorge Kageyama
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Talia Karasov
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Sonja Kersten
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Sebastian Petersen
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Leily Rabbani
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Julian Regalado
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Lukas Reinelt
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Beth Rowan
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Danelle K. Seymour
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Efthymia Symeonidi
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Rebecca Schwab
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Diep Thi Ngoc Tran
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François Vasseur
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George Wang
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Frank Weiss
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Rui Wu
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Wanyan Xi
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Maricris Zaidem
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Wangsheng Zhu
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Fernando García-Arenal
2Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Technical University of Madrid, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
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Hernán A. Burbano
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Oliver Bossdorf
3Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Detlef Weigel
1Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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Abstract

The gold standard for studying natural selection and adaptation in the wild is to quantify lifetime fitness of individuals from natural populations that have been grown together in a common garden, or that have been reciprocally transplanted. By combining fitness values with species traits and genome sequences, one can infer selection coefficients at the genetic level. Here we present a rainfall-manipulation experiment with 517 whole-genome sequenced natural accessions of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana spanning the global distribution of the species. The experiments were conducted in two field stations in contrasting climates, in the Mediterranean and in Central Europe, where we built rainout shelters and simulated high and low rainfall. Using custom image analysis we quantified fitness- and phenology-related traits for 23,154 pots, which contained about 14,500 plants growing independently, and over 310,000 plants growing in small populations (max. 30 plants). This large field experiment dataset, which associates fitness and ecologically-relevant traits with genomes, will provide an important resource to test eco-evolutionary genetic theories and to understand the potential evolutionary impacts of future climates on an important plant model species.

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A rainfall-manipulation experiment with 517 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions
Moises Exposito-Alonso, Rocío Gámez Rodríguez, Cristina Barragán, Giovanna Capovilla, Eunyoung Chae, Jane Devos, Ezgi S. Dogan, Claudia Friedemann, Caspar Gross, Patricia Lang, Derek Lundberg, Vera Middendorf, Jorge Kageyama, Talia Karasov, Sonja Kersten, Sebastian Petersen, Leily Rabbani, Julian Regalado, Lukas Reinelt, Beth Rowan, Danelle K. Seymour, Efthymia Symeonidi, Rebecca Schwab, Diep Thi Ngoc Tran, Kavita Venkataramani, Anna-Lena Van de Weyer, François Vasseur, George Wang, Ronja Wedegärtner, Frank Weiss, Rui Wu, Wanyan Xi, Maricris Zaidem, Wangsheng Zhu, Fernando García-Arenal, Hernán A. Burbano, Oliver Bossdorf, Detlef Weigel
bioRxiv 186767; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/186767
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A rainfall-manipulation experiment with 517 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions
Moises Exposito-Alonso, Rocío Gámez Rodríguez, Cristina Barragán, Giovanna Capovilla, Eunyoung Chae, Jane Devos, Ezgi S. Dogan, Claudia Friedemann, Caspar Gross, Patricia Lang, Derek Lundberg, Vera Middendorf, Jorge Kageyama, Talia Karasov, Sonja Kersten, Sebastian Petersen, Leily Rabbani, Julian Regalado, Lukas Reinelt, Beth Rowan, Danelle K. Seymour, Efthymia Symeonidi, Rebecca Schwab, Diep Thi Ngoc Tran, Kavita Venkataramani, Anna-Lena Van de Weyer, François Vasseur, George Wang, Ronja Wedegärtner, Frank Weiss, Rui Wu, Wanyan Xi, Maricris Zaidem, Wangsheng Zhu, Fernando García-Arenal, Hernán A. Burbano, Oliver Bossdorf, Detlef Weigel
bioRxiv 186767; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/186767

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