FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS OF ADAPTATION TO HYPOXIC COLD‐STRESS IN HIGH‐ALTITUDE DEER MICE: TRANSCRIPTOMIC PLASTICITY AND THERMOGENIC PERFORMANCE

In species that are distributed across steep environmental gradients, adaptive variation in physiological performance may be attributable to transcriptional plasticity in underlying regulatory networks. Here we report the results of common-garden experiments that were designed to elucidate the role of regulatory plasticity in evolutionary adaptation to hypoxic cold-stress in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). We integrated genomic …