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Kristin Sikkink

Arima Genomics
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Mechanisms of plastic rescue in novel environments

EC Snell-Rood, ME Kobiela, KL Sikkink… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Adaptive phenotypic plasticity provides a mechanism of developmental rescue in novel and
rapidly changing environments. Understanding the underlying mechanism of plasticity is …

Rapid Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity and Shifting Thresholds of Genetic Assimilation in the Nematode Caenorhabditis remanei

KL Sikkink, RM Reynolds, CM Ituarte… - G3: Genes …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Many organisms can acclimate to new environments through phenotypic plasticity, a complex
trait that can be heritable, subject to selection, and evolve. However, the rate and genetic …

Traffic influences nutritional quality of roadside plants for monarch caterpillars

TS Mitchell, L Agnew, R Meyer, KL Sikkink… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Roadside habitats are increasingly being targeted for restoration and conservation. Roadside
habitats often exhibit altered soil and plant chemistry due to pollution from maintenance (…

Environmentally induced changes in correlated responses to selection reveal variable pleiotropy across a complex genetic network

KL Sikkink, RM Reynolds, WA Cresko, PC Phillips - Evolution, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Selection in novel environments can lead to a coordinated evolutionary response across a
suite of characters. Environmental conditions can also potentially induce changes in the …

[HTML][HTML] The transgenerational effects of heat stress in the nematode Caenorhabditis remanei are negative and rapidly eliminated under direct selection for increased …

KL Sikkink, CM Ituarte, RM Reynolds, WA Cresko… - Genomics, 2014 - Elsevier
Parents encountering stress environments can influence the phenotype of their offspring in
a form of transgenerational phenotypic plasticity that has the potential to be adaptive if …

Anthropogenic increases in nutrients alter sexual selection dynamics: A case study in butterflies

A Espeset, ME Kobiela, KL Sikkink, T Pan… - Behavioral …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Anthropogenic increases in nutrient availability offer opportunities to study evolutionary
shifts in sexual selection dynamics in real time. A rapid increase in nutrient availability may …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic adaptation to agricultural environments: cabbage white butterflies (Pieris rapae) as a case study

KL Sikkink, ME Kobiela, EC Snell-Rood - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Background Agricultural environments have long presented an opportunity to study evolution
in action, and genomic approaches are opening doors for testing hypotheses about …

Environmental and evolutionary drivers of the modular gene regulatory network underlying phenotypic plasticity for stress resistance in the nematode Caenorhabditis …

KL Sikkink, RM Reynolds, CM Ituarte… - G3: Genes …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… Kristin L Sikkink … We also examined enrichment of another stress-related candidate
gene set, the heat shock protein families (hsps) previously examined in Sikkink et al. (…

[HTML][HTML] High-specificity detection of rare alleles with paired-end low error sequencing (PELE-Seq)

JL Preston, AE Royall, MA Randel, KL Sikkink… - BMC genomics, 2016 - Springer
Background Polymorphic loci exist throughout the genomes of a population and provide the
raw genetic material needed for a species to adapt to changes in the environment. The …

Tolerance of novel toxins through generalized mechanisms: simulating gradual host shifts of butterflies

KL Sikkink, R Hostager, ME Kobiela… - The American …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
Organisms encounter a wide range of toxic compounds in their environments, from chemicals
that serve anticonsumption or anticompetition functions to pollutants and pesticides. …