MINI REVIEW article

Front. Genet., 25 September 2020

Sec. Evolutionary, Population, and Conservation Genetics

Volume 11 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.564515

Predicting Thermal Adaptation by Looking Into Populations’ Genomic Past

  • 1. Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria AGROSAVIA, C.I. La Selva, Rionegro, Colombia

  • 2. Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Sede Medellín, Medellín, Colombia

  • 3. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, United States

Abstract

Molecular evolution offers an insightful theory to interpret the genomic consequences of thermal adaptation to previous events of climate change beyond range shifts. However, disentangling often mixed footprints of selective and demographic processes from those due to lineage sorting, recombination rate variation, and genomic constrains is not trivial. Therefore, here we condense current and historical population genomic tools to study thermal adaptation and outline key developments (genomic prediction, machine learning) that might assist their utilization for improving forecasts of populations’ responses to thermal variation. We start by summarizing how recent thermal-driven selective and demographic responses can be inferred by coalescent methods and in turn how quantitative genetic theory offers suitable multi-trait predictions over a few generations via the breeder’s equation. We later assume that enough generations have passed as to display genomic signatures of divergent selection to thermal variation and describe how these footprints can be reconstructed using genome-wide association and selection scans or, alternatively, may be used for forward prediction over multiple generations under an infinitesimal genomic prediction model. Finally, we move deeper in time to comprehend the genomic consequences of thermal shifts at an evolutionary time scale by relying on phylogeographic approaches that allow for reticulate evolution and ecological parapatric speciation, and end by envisioning the potential of modern machine learning techniques to better inform long-term predictions. We conclude that foreseeing future thermal adaptive responses requires bridging the multiple spatial scales of historical and predictive environmental change research under modern cohesive approaches such as genomic prediction and machine learning frameworks.

On the Challenges of Studying Genomic Thermal Adaptation

Warming is imposing an unprecedented climate emergency on nature, food, energy supply, and economy around the world (Ripple et al., 2020). While evolutionary genomics may improve prediction of populations’ responses to thermal change (Waldvogel et al., 2020a), geologic records of temperature and carbon dioxide (CO2) variations (Supplementary Figure S1) are also insightful into the coupling of biodiversity, climate, and the carbon cycle and hence may help predicting the consequences of future carbon emissions (Zachos et al., 2008). For instance, several reports of fire activity (Whitlock and Bartlein, 2003; Bush et al., 2008) and hydroclimate changes (Wang et al., 2017) as records of thermal changes during the Holocene have taught us that extinction is a slow process and that many species may already be functionally extinct (Cronk, 2016). A key modern advance has precisely been to couple the extinction risk with the migratory potential under an ecological niche conservatism scenario (Steinbauer et al., 2018), and predictions of population-level genomic and phenotypic responses to thermal change (Hoffmann and Sgro, 2011). Although atmospheric CO2 has been found to be better correlated with richness of (plant) species (Supplementary Figure S1C) than temperature itself throughout the Cenozoic up until 20 Mya (Jaramillo et al., 2006; Royer and Chernoff, 2013), we need to improve our understanding on how thermal change vulnerability impacts current and historical adaptive genetic variation in order to enhance populations response projections (Razgour et al., 2019).

Genomes are diverse in signatures of the populations’ evolutionary past across timescales (Wolf and Ellegren, 2017) and therefore are informative on historical adaptive responses to ancient and more recent events of climate change (Figure 1 and Table 1). By revealing the nature of these signatures and learning from previous reactions to environmental change, genomics can truly assist modern predictions aimed at incorporating responses beyond migration. Yet, disentangling often confused selective and demographic signatures from those due to genetic drift and genomic constrains is challenging (Ellegren and Galtier, 2016), consequently delaying the factual utilization of genomics for forecasting. Therefore, in this mini-review we envision summarizing modern tools from the genomic era that are enriching our comprehension of the genetic consequences of past and recent climate change, while offering a perspective on how to improve predictive models that incorporate thermal adaptation. Specifically, we aim prospecting how genomic prediction (GP) and machine learning (ML) approaches may offer cohesive frameworks to (1) integrate more traditional, but heterogeneous, genomic, and ecological datasets across temporal scales, by (2) maximizing prediction accuracies, while (3) understating the relative contribution of the underlying genomic processes. This is still a future avenue of research, and so we close by offering perspectives. Different drivers of the genomic landscape to thermal adaption (Gompert et al., 2014; Ravinet et al., 2017; Cortés and Blair, 2018; López-Hernández and Cortés, 2019), such as disruptive and background selection, gene flow (Miller et al., 2020), shared ancestral polymorphism, and mutation/recombination rate variation (Feder et al., 2012; Ellegren and Wolf, 2017; Cortés et al., 2018b), have been identified. In order to discern among them, a first necessary step toward the evaluation of the adaptive potential involves typifying the genomic landscape by using summary statistics like nucleotide diversity, π (Nei, 1987), and relative, FST (Weir and Cockerham, 1984), and absolute, DXY (Nei, 1987), divergence. FST vs. DXY contrasts inform population divergence in the presence of gene flow (co-occurrence of peaks in both profiles), recurrent selection across subpopulations (FST peaks match shallow DXY valleys), and selective sweeps predating the subpopulations’ split (FST peaks match deep DXY valleys) (Nachman and Payseur, 2012; Cruickshank and Hahn, 2014; Irwin et al., 2016). Inferences are more robust if carried out across replicated samplings of contrasting populations (e.g., in terms of thermal variation) within a hierarchically nested framework of divergence (Cortés et al., 2018b). A second step refers to the detection of selection signatures, if any – i.e., hard vs. soft selection sweeps (Pritchard et al., 2010; Zahn and Purnell, 2016), which must be followed by a third validation step across replicated demographics (Roesti et al., 2014; Lotterhos and Whitlock, 2015) and temporal levels (Nosil and Feder, 2011; Matos et al., 2015; Fragata et al., 2018).

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Analytical approachDiagramData sourcesMain findingReferences
Coalescence theory and ancestry distribution modelsFigure 1B20 alpine plant species across the European Alps genotyped with AFLP markers and analyzed with ancestry distribution modelsAncestry distribution models open new perspectives to forecast population genetic changes within speciesJay et al., 2012
Coalescence theory in a SFT frameworkFigure 1B273 Salix genets in 12 SFT populations genotyped with 7 SSRsThere is asymmetric gene flow across a thermal gradient that may be affected under future climate conditionsCortés et al., 2014
Coalescence theoryFigure 1BExome re-sequencing of 48 Populus trichocarpa individualsEffective population size has varied in concert with atmospheric temperature deviation from the past c. 120,000 yearsZhou et al., 2014
Quantitative geneticsFigure 1CReview of models on whether evolutionary changes within species can contribute to species adapting to global thermal changeEvolutionary processes and trait trade-offs (Q matrix) need to be incorporated into schemes that try to manage thermal impactsHoffmann and Sgro, 2011
Quantitative geneticsFigure 1CReview discussing thermal adaptation to climate change from an evolutionary physiological perspectiveSpecies’ physiological, genetic and plastic (Nicotra et al., 2010) capacities can aid in forecasting their response to thermal changeChown et al., 2010
Quantitative geneticsFigure 1CPhysiological model that simulates thermal tolerance assays for multilocus quantitative traits in D. melanogasterRealized heritabilities of knockdown temperature may underestimate the true heritability of the upper thermal limitRezende et al., 2010; Santos et al., 2012
Breeder’s equation in 2-habitats SFT designFigure 1C1,061 Salix herbacea genotypes, from 2 habitats in a SFT design, screened for 6 thermally influenced traits and 7 SSRsSignificant heritable variation in morphology and phenology might help S. herbacea adapt to thermal stressSedlacek et al., 2016
Quantitative genetics and breeder’s equationFigure 1C166 lines of D. melanogaster assessed for cold tolerance at 5 temperaturesLow thermal tolerance is environment specific and evolvability decreases with increasing developmental temperaturesØrsted et al., 2019
Quantitative genetics and breeder’s equationFigure 1C4,267 25- to 35-year-old European larch trees growing in 21 reforestation installations across 4 distinct climatic regions in AustriaGenetic evaluation across broad thermal gradients permits delineation of suitable reforestation areas under future climatesLstiburek et al., 2020
GWASFigure 1DReview on molecular-level regulation of the annual growth cycle in temperate and boreal regionsMerging genomic analyses with more quantitative approaches will aid studies on how species cope with thermal changesSingh et al., 2017
eGWASFigure 1DWhole-genome transcriptional responses in D. subobscura subjected to threefold replicated laboratory thermal shocksMany genes appear to be involved in thermal adaptation, as expected for the adaptive evolution of a complex traitLaayouni et al., 2007
GWAS across a SFT latitudinal gradientFigure 1D446 Populus trichocarpa trees from a latitudinal gradient screened for bud-break in 2 provenance trials and with 2.2-M SNPsVariation in bud-break reflects differential selection for thermal functions likely to be affected by climate warmingMcKown et al., 2018
GWSS across a SFT latitudinal gradientFigure 1DTwo populations of D. subobscura from different latitudes introduced to a new common laboratory environment and WGSPopulations followed different genetic routes to reach predictable and similar adaptive phenotypic outcomesSeabra et al., 2017
GWSS given a modern heat waveFigure 1DLong-term time series of seasonal genetic data in D. subobscuraGenetic constitution of the populations transiently shifted to summer-like frequencies during the 2011 heat waveRodriguez-Trelles et al., 2013
GWSS in 2 postglacial lineagesFigure 1D48 Populus alba ramets from 2 postglacial recolonization lineages genotyped with GWS for 1.7-M SNP markersSelection from standing variation implies the potential for rapid evolution of P. alba populations in the face of thermal changeStölting et al., 2015
GEA at a continental scaleFigure 1D78 Andean and Mesoamerican wild bean accessions with 23,373 GBS-derived SNPs and 3 bioclimatic heat stress indices24 associated loci with contrasting habitat types flank 22 heat shock protein genes (Simões et al., 2003; Sørensen et al., 2003)López-Hernández and Cortés, 2019
GEA at a latitudinal gradientFigure 1DFour populations of D. subobscura from different latitudes screened for 4 candidate loci for thermal adaptation in inversionsInversion frequency clines are being maintained by local thermal adaptation in face of gene flowSimões and Pascual, 2018
GEA at a regional scaleFigure 1D79 natural Fagus sylvatica populations, 144 SNPs out of 52 thermal candidate genes, and 87 environmental predictorsF. sylvatica exhibits local genetic adaptation to thermal heterogeneity at the regional scale (Swiss Alps)Pluess et al., 2016
GEA at a regional scaleFigure 1D140 wild tomato accessions, 6,830 SNPs, and redundancy analysis (RDA), structural equation modeling (SEM), and generalized dissimilarity modeling (GDM)Regional differences in the abiotic environment contribute to genomic divergence within a wild tomato speciesGibson and Moyle, 2020
Genomic prediction (GP)Figure 1E48 cows genotypes with a BovineLD BeadChip and studied in climate-controlled chambers that simulate a heat wave eventGP for heat tolerance may increase resilience and welfare in animal breeding to increased incidence and duration of heat eventsGarner et al., 2016
Backward genomic prediction (GP)Figure 1ERe-sequencing of 15 1900-year-old maize cobs from Turkey Pen Shelter, and GBS data of 1,316 modern landraces for trainingThermal adaptation drove modern maize divergence and was selected in situ from ancient standing variation 2000 years agoSwarts et al., 2017
Genomic prediction (GP)Figure 1E287 elite spring wheat lines assessed in a 90K Illumina array for traits as thermal time to flowering in 18 heat/drought environmentsGP is capable to predict complex traits and find the best environments to adapt new crop lines to heat and drought stress eventsSukumaran et al., 2017
Genomic prediction (GP)Figure 1E3,485 wheat lines genotyped with 9,285 GBS-derived SNPs and phenotyped for grain yield in heat and drought environmentsGP can be used to increase the size of plant nurseries by considering un-phenotyped lines for heat and drought stress-resilienceJuliana et al., 2019
Fossil recordFigure 1FPalynological neotropical plant diversity of 1,411 morpho-species and 287,736 occurrences (65–20 million years ago)Low Paleocene flora diversity, more diverse early Eocene flora exceeding Holocene levels, and a decline at early OligoceneJaramillo et al., 2006
PhylogeneticsFigure 1FThoreau’s dataset of the Concord (MA) flora that provides data on changes in species abundance and flowering time (150 years)Thermal change has shaped the phylo-genetically biased pattern of species loss in species that do not respond to temperatureWillis et al., 2008
Fossil recordFigure 1FPollen and macroscopic charcoal from the Erazo profile (Ecuador)Global Pleistocene temperature change can radically alter vegetation communities on the Andean flank in western AmazoniaCardenas et al., 2011
Phylogeographic inferences – fossilsFigure 1FLong-term ecological records and their relevance to climate change predictions for a warmer worldRange shifts, community turnover, genetic adaptation, and an increase in diversity are observed during warmer intervalsWillis and MacDonald, 2011
Phylogeographic inferencesFigure 1F17 time-calibrated phylogenies of major tetrapod clades and climatic data from distributions of > 500 extant speciesRates of projected climate change dramatically exceed past rates of thermal niche evolution among vertebrate speciesQuintero and Wiens, 2013
Phylogeographic inferencesFigure 1FNiche shifts among populations within 56 plant and animal species using time-calibrated phylogenetic treesRates of change in thermal niches in plant and animal populations have been much slower than projected climate changeJezkova and Wiens, 2016
Phylogenetic-assisted modelingFigure 1F9,737 records for 1,312 plant species and phylogenetic correlation matrix as an additional random effectTropical plants do not have narrower heat tolerances, but are more at risk due to their upper thermal limits (Feeley et al., 2020)Sentinella et al., 2020
Dynamic eco-evolutionary modelingFigure 1GFour endemic Alpine plant species analyzed with niche modeling, and individual-based demographic and genetic simulationsMonitoring species’ local abundance instead of their range better informs on species’ extinction risks under thermal changeCotto et al., 2017
Machine learning (ML)Figure 1GSpecies geographic distributions modeling using maximum entropy (MaxEnt)ML modeling can be used for discrimination of suitable vs. unsuitable areas for the species with presence-only datasetsPhillips et al., 2017
Machine learning (ML)Figure 1GTemporal uncertainty framework to assess when and where cultivation of key crops in sub-Saharan Africa will become unviableIncremental, preparatory and transformational adaptation phases enable projected crop transformational changesRippke et al., 2016
Machine learning (ML)Figure 1GRandom forest in Himalaya’s Betula for last inter-glaciation, present (1970–2000) and future (2061–2080) conditionsBiodiversity in high elevation ecosystems is sensitive to global environmental changes, especially temperature warmingMohapatra et al., 2019
Machine learning (ML)Figure 1GModeling of the spatiotemporal distribution in the present and the future of pine in heat scenarios (RCP 4.5 y RCP 8.5) by MaxEntThere were good predictions for both climate change scenarios, and two contrasted tendencies of progressive evolutionGarah and Bentouati, 2019
Machine learning (ML)Figure 1GAssociation between gene expression and critical temperature in divergent trout populations was measured by random forestThe “gradient boosting” approach showed that evolution for higher upper thermal tolerance is possibleChen et al., 2018
Machine learning (ML) + phylogenetic diversityFigure 1GPredictive models of taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity using vascular plant database for the United StatesNative phylogenetic diversity is likely to decrease over the next half century despite increases in species richnessPark et al., 2020
The potential of big dataFigure 1GSpecial issue inspired by the symposium “Fitness landscapes, big data, and the predictability of evolution”Understanding evolutionary adaptive responses in the face of epistasis is a major need that could benefit from big dataVisser et al., 2018
Genomic prediction (GP) + machine learning (ML)Figures 1E,Gca. 11,000 wheat landrace accessions assessed for 40,000 GBS-derived SNPs and traits possibly related with heat stressDeep learning should be integrated with GBLUP for the study of complex traits and the GxE interactionMontesinos-Lopez et al., 2018
Genomic prediction (GP) + machine learning (ML)Figures 1E,Gca. 3,500 wheat landrace accessions examined for 2,038 GBS-derived SNPs in 4 environments of drought and 2 of heat stressMLP and SVM were competitive in genomic prediction of complex traits possibly related to heat stress as days to headingMontesinos-Lopez et al., 2019

Case studies that have addressed thermal adaptation at different temporal scales using diverse genetic analyses.

Examples enlighten how analytical approaches that try to reconstruct populations’ past genetic adaptive responses to previous events of climate change could be proxies for better forecasting. This compilation is built for illustrative purposes and is not meant to be exhaustive. Examples are sorted as in Figure 1. SFT, space-for-time substitution, GWAS, genome-wide association study; eGWAS, expression GWAS; GWSS, genome-wide selection scans; GEA, genome–environment associations; SSRs, simple sequence repeats; SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism; WGS, whole-genome sequencing; GBS, genotyping-by-sequencing; SVM, support vector machine; MLP, multilayer perceptron; GP, genomic prediction; ML, machine learning.

Exclusively phenotypic empirical methods (Figure 1A), such as in situ monitoring, growth chamber experiments, and “common garden” (provenance) tests (Miller et al., 2020), constitute baseline evidence of thermal adaptation and should therefore inform more advanced genomic approaches. Naturally available environmental gradients (e.g., elevation or latitudinal clines) can also be used as proxies for climate change (Wheeler et al., 2016; Cortés and Wheeler, 2018), which is known as space-for-time (SFT) substitution. Replicated “common garden” tests (a.k.a. reciprocal transplants) carried out in an SFT framework are in turn useful to test whether populations can cope with changes through local adaptation (standing variation) or via phenotypic plasticity, especially in long-living species (Bridle and Vines, 2007; Sedlacek et al., 2015). Within an SFT framework, restricted gene flow can lead to small-scale genetic structures (Stanton et al., 1997) or distorted source/sink-like patterns (e.g., Cortés et al., 2014) driven by environmental factors (Nathan and Muller-Landau, 2000). Asymmetric migratory potential in a local scale may provide suitable habitats within only a few meters of the current locations (Yamagishi et al., 2005; Scherrer and Körner, 2011) but may also lead to narrowly adapted populations, even in the face of gene flow (Fitzpatrick et al., 2015), that may respond poorly to future conditions (North et al., 2011; Miller et al., 2020).

From Recent Genetic Responses to Short-Term Predictions

Coalescence Informs on Contemporary Thermal-Driven Selective and Demographic Changes

In order to trace back thermal-driven selective and demographic changes at recent temporal scales (Figure 1B), coalescent theory (Wakeley, 2008) helps in discriminating among authentic signatures of selection and those related to demography (e.g., bottlenecks and among populations reduced gene flow), from spurious covariates (Yeaman and Otto, 2011) such as lineage sorting (Wolf and Ellegren, 2017; Becher et al., 2020) and inversions (Dolgova et al., 2010; Fragata et al., 2014). Recursive simulation-based tools to incorporate the mutation/selection balance (Bustamante et al., 2001) across various scenarios of divergence and gene flow are approximate Bayesian computation – ABC (Csilléry et al., 2010; Cornuet et al., 2014), and pairwise sequentially Markovian coalescent – PSMC (Nadachowska-Brzyska et al., 2016). These approaches can inform how isolated populations that usually occupy climates with scarce habitat complexity (Flantua et al., 2019) may favor thermal generalists, while intricate local-scale heterogeneity at larger scales could trigger (Hughes, 2006; Cortés et al., 2018a) thermal specialists with limited migration potential (Cuesta et al., 2019). They can also model population sizes (Beerli, 2006) in concert with thermal changes (Zhou et al., 2014; Lehnert et al., 2019). Yet, these approaches may be limited by computational burden as they rely on simulation-based rejection sampling, while much effort is gone into the design of multiple scenarios, dimensionality reduction, and feature selection (Schrider and Kern, 2018).

The Breeder’s Equation Assists Multi-Trait Predictions Over a Few Generations

In order for thermal adaptation to happen, there must be heritable trait variation upon which selection, enforced by climate change, acts (Darwin, 1874). A simple deterministic model that condenses this evolutionary paradigm, aiding in the forecast of adaptive trait responses across few generations, comes from the quantitative genetic discipline and is known as the breeder’s equation (Figure 1C). Its multivariate form (Walsh, 2008) allows predicting responses of genetically correlated traits (vector R) to standardized thermal selection gradients (vector β) over one generation, so that R = Gβ, where G is the variance–covariance matrix of additive genetic parameter estimates – a proxy for traits’ heritabilities and trade-offs (Falconer and Mackay, 1996). The potential evolutionary response can therefore be computed using selection-gradient estimates derived from fitness proxies (i.e., fitness values regressed as a function of standardized trait values) and marker-based heritabilities (Lynch and Ritland, 1999). This approach by itself is not novel, but what makes it powerful is that it can be coupled with SFT (Wheeler et al., 2014), among other trials, to predict thermal responses to thermal change (Sedlacek et al., 2016). Yet, a major drawback is that selection gradients heavily depend on the nature of the fitness proxies (Sedlacek et al., 2016). Alternatively, experimental evolution studies (Exposito-Alonso et al., 2019) could test more explicitly how rapidly growing populations may respond to different thermal scenarios (Kawecki et al., 2012) that, together with evolve and re-sequence analyses (Turner and Miller, 2012), may contribute to understand the genetic basis of short-term thermal adaptation.

From Deeper Genomic Signatures of Selection to Mid-Term Predictions

Genome-Wide Scans Reveal Signatures of Divergent Selection to Past Thermal Adaptation

Assuming that enough generations have passed as to exhibit divergent selection to thermal changes, genome-wide association (GWAS) (Hirschhorn and Daly, 2005) and selection (GWSS) (Sabeti et al., 2007) scans (Figure 1D) are essential analytical tools to reconstruct the genomic architecture of adaptive trait divergence to thermal stress (Lecheta et al., 2020; Zwoinska et al., 2020). These methods assume that some allele variants are in linkage disequilibrium (LD) (Slatkin, 2008) with causal variants that influence the adaptive phenotype (Morris and Borevitz, 2011; Tam et al., 2019), a.k.a. genetic “hitchhiking” (Maynard Smith and Haigh, 1974; Feder and Nosil, 2010). An interface between GWAS and GWSS studies where loci are directly correlated with niche’s thermal variables is named genome–environment association (GEA) (Forester et al., 2016) and is insightful to infer past thermal adaptation, too (Hancock et al., 2011; Pluess et al., 2016; López-Hernández and Cortés, 2019). Yet, these approaches partly disregard non-additive and highly polygenic architectures (Stephan, 2016; Csillery et al., 2018; Barghi et al., 2020) and may be misleading (Maher, 2008; Pennisi, 2014) if standardized data (Waldvogel et al., 2020b) and statistical covariates (Lambert and Black, 2012), such as population stratification (Barton et al., 2019) and genomic constrains (Wray et al., 2013; Huber et al., 2016), are incorrectly accounted for.

Genomic Prediction May Assist Forecasting of Adaptive Traits Over Multiple Generations

A cutting-edge development that materialized after bringing genomics into quantitative genetics theory is genomic prediction (GP) (Desta and Ortiz, 2014; Crossa et al., 2017; Grattapaglia et al., 2018). GP uses historical phenotypic data to adjust marker-based infinitesimal (Figure 1E) models (Meuwissen et al., 2001; Gianola et al., 2006; de los Campos et al., 2013) that may overcome some of the restraints described in the previous section. GP may offer a more thoughtful picture of complex traits (e.g., thermal adaptation), presumably regulated by many low-effect loci (Pritchard et al., 2010). GP has so far informed predictions of single adaptive traits in populations with known pedigrees (Saint Pierre et al., 2012; Cros et al., 2019) and hybrid origins (Technow et al., 2014; Tan et al., 2017), as well as multi-trait inferences across diverse unrelated populations (Crossa et al., 2007, 2016; Resende et al., 2012; Suontama et al., 2019) under genotype by environment interactions (GxE) (Montesinos-Lopez et al., 2018; Crossa et al., 2019) facing polygenic climate adaptation (Isabel et al., 2020). GP of thermal adaptive traits across multiple generations and populations may be incipient (Table 1), yet it harbors a promising potential, as was demonstrated by reversely predicting unobserved thermal phenology in 1900-year-old ancient corn (Swarts et al., 2017), and as we prospect in the last section of this mini-review.

From Deep-Time Genomic Consequences of Thermal Shifts to Long-Term Predictions

Phylogeography Offers Insights Into Past Responses at an Evolutionary Scale

Phylogeographic inferences (Figure 1F) offer insights into how species (1) diversify (Quintero and Wiens, 2013) and (2) face the effects of past thermal variation (Jezkova and Wiens, 2016; Richardson et al., 2019) by boosting complex interactions such as species facilitation (Wheeler et al., 2015), adaptive introgression, and hybrid speciation (Coyne and Orr, 2004; Abbott et al., 2013; Payseur and Rieseberg, 2016; Marques et al., 2019). For instance, interspecific hybrids with intermediate niche requirements may rescue population’s gene pools in the face of climate change, while they can also display signals of heterosis for thermal adaption due to dominance on recessive alleles or overdominance via novel allele combinations (Abdelmula et al., 1999; Leinonen et al., 2011). Modern phylogeographic inferences currently rely on abundant and unlinked genetic markers (Bryant et al., 2012) that are capable of bypassing traditional assumptions of single gene mutation models (Caliebe, 2008) while accounting for scenarios of reticulate evolution (Vargas et al., 2017). Marker-based inferences also offer higher resolution to validate cases where adaptive radiation (Madriñán et al., 2013), and ecological parapatric speciation resulted from local patterns of environmental variation (Cortés et al., 2018a) that may resemble those expected by thermal change. Mosaics of local-habitat heterogeneity can ultimately enforce thermal pre-adaptation (Cortés and Wheeler, 2018). Distance-based phylogenic reconstruction without proper out-groups (Baum et al., 2005; Cortés, 2013) is yet a major risk of these approaches.

Machine Learning May Bridge Historical Genomics and Long-Term Predictions

A promising way to simultaneously make sense of multiple sources of historical genomic data that can be utilized to predict populations’ adaptive responses is by merging them into a machine learning (ML) framework (Figures 1G,H). ML bypasses the “curse of dimensionality” and benefits from high-dimensional inputs of heterogeneous dependent variables (“features”) without a priori knowledge of their joint probability distribution (Schrider and Kern, 2018). This improves predictions’ “recall” (true positive) rate among a set of possible responses, especially when the classification is iteratively trained using “labeled” data (i.e., historical thermal responses may offer novel calibration datasets, Table 1) via N-fold cross-validation. ML has been routinely used to make ecological niche modeling (Phillips et al., 2017; Valencia et al., 2020) and functional predictions across genomes (Libbrecht and Noble, 2015). Yet, ML may likely displace other tools useful to characterize the genomic consequences of thermal adaptation, already introduced in this mini-review, such as ABC modeling (Liu et al., 2019) and GWSS (Schrider and Kern, 2018).

Concluding Remarks

Thermal adaptation is a complex polygenic trait well-described in terms of its genetic architecture and selection footprints across a wide range of phylogenetically diverse taxa (Way and Oren, 2010; Valladares et al., 2014; López-Hernández and Cortés, 2019). While genomics has enabled these achievements that rely on past events of thermal variation, forward predictions remain one step behind partly because (1) disentangling selective and demographic drivers of the genomic landscape from fortuitous genomic constrains (Logan and Cox, 2020) is puzzling (Ellegren and Galtier, 2016) and (2) merging these heterogeneous signatures and data sources into a cohesive predictive framework was unfeasible, until recently. In this mini-review, we advocated for novel approaches that may enhance our understanding of the genetic consequences of past climate change, while offering new avenues to calibrate more accurate predictive models of the thermal adaptive potential. For instance, ML advances are likely to now move beyond species distribution modeling (Phillips et al., 2017) and functional genomics (Libbrecht and Noble, 2015) to permeate the backward interpretation of recent genetic demographic responses and genomic signatures to historical thermal selection by updating popular but sometimes intractable methods such as ABC modeling and GWSS (Schrider and Kern, 2018). Meanwhile, GP and ML might boost forward predictions of the adaptive potential beyond a single generation by training multifactorial models that can try incorporating genomic heterogeneous evidence of historical thermal adaption across a wide spectrum of temporal scales. Ultimately, understanding how biotas formed in response to historical environmental change may improve our ability to predict and mitigate the threats to species posed by global warming (Ding et al., 2020).

Despite GP’s and ML’s being useful to comprehend and predict thermal adaptation, these new paradigms are not exempt of criticism. A reiterative misconception is that because these methodologies aim at strengthening predictions and classification boundaries, they do not offer a mechanistic understanding of the subjacent processes. However, even though GP and ML rely on algorithmically generated models, both are far from “black boxes” because they allow direct measurement of the contribution of each genetic marker (Resende et al., 2012; Spindel et al., 2016) and “feature” (Schrider and Kern, 2018), to the point that they can offer higher resolution than traditional genetic mapping (Hirschhorn and Daly, 2005) and deterministic model building (Otto and Day, 2007) techniques. A second misconception assumes computational burden. Although both GP and ML require a large number of simulations, they do not depend on rejection sampling, which means they may efficiently use all of the simulations to inform the mapping of historical thermal data to parameters (Schrider and Kern, 2018).

Future Directions

So far, GP and ML have been mostly utilized to address thermal adaptation individually (Table 1). For instance, GP has been used to project heat tolerance in diverse wheat lines (Sukumaran et al., 2017; Juliana et al., 2019), and bovine genotypes (Garner et al., 2016), in all cases more as a proof of concept. Similarly, ML approaches have not only deepened our understating on populations’ range shifts in the light of thermal variation (Rippke et al., 2016; Garah and Bentouati, 2019; Mohapatra et al., 2019) but also assisted eGWAS of critical temperature thresholds (Chen et al., 2018) and phylogenetic forecasting in plants (Park et al., 2020). However, since GP and ML are both cutting-edge tools, there is still room and need for new developments. For instance, merging more cohesively past adaptive responses to previous events of environmental change into cutting-edge analytical frameworks like GP and ML will ultimately allow predicting whether populations’ adaptive potential may keep up with the pace of current thermal increase (Franks and Hoffmann, 2012; Franks et al., 2014). Swarts et al. (2017) illustrates that across-temporal predictions may be useful not only to improve forecasting (Sweet et al., 2019) but also to better understand previous responses to thermal variation, since they used backward GP to demonstrate that thermal adaptation in maize was selected in situ from ancient standing variation 2000 years ago. By enlightening on the nature of these historical genetic signatures to past climate change, genomics can also enhance predictions that aim at incorporating adaptive responses beyond extirpation and range shifts (Chen et al., 2011).

Data sources incorporated into GP and ML can transcend those with a direct genomic connotation and involve others that can modulate or be informative of the thermal responses. For instance, from an abiotic point of view, nutrient availability (Little et al., 2016), absorption (Wu et al., 2020), and soil interactions (Sedlacek et al., 2014) could act as enhancers or limiting factors of the adaptive responses. From a biotic perspective, among-ecotype differentiation (Cortés et al., 2012a,b, 2013; Blair et al., 2016), intrapopulation divergence (Cortés et al., 2011; Blair et al., 2012, 2018; Kelleher et al., 2012), and within-family variation (Galeano et al., 2012; Blair et al., 2013) could encourage or coerce adaptation. Population’s functioning, abundance, distribution, and diversity, as predicted from controlled experiments (Way and Oren, 2010; Elmendorf et al., 2012; Wolkovich et al., 2012; Andresen et al., 2016; Becklin et al., 2017; Singh et al., 2017), experimental evolution (Tenaillon et al., 2012; Mallard et al., 2018; Pfenninger and Foucault, 2020), biological monitoring (Walther et al., 2002; Franks et al., 2013; Wipf et al., 2013; Reichstein et al., 2014; Hällfors et al., 2020), and shifts observed in the fossil record (Alsos et al., 2009; Willis and MacDonald, 2011; Lyons et al., 2016; Bruelheide et al., 2018), can feed back on climate change (Pearson et al., 2013) and so be considered as drivers themselves. Regardless of the exact nature and extent of the data type, both GP and ML may offer suitable scenarios to merge diverse, and even conflicting, data sources in order to pinpoint emergent properties (Street et al., 2011) out of a complex system, as is thermal genomic adaptation. Therefore, a key guideline for new developments concerns a better coupling of GP and ML approaches. Until now, only a few works have relied on both methodologies, in the context of thermal adaptation in wheat landraces (Montesinos-Lopez et al., 2018, 2019), but have not gone beyond technical comparisons/recommendations, nor have designed integrated pipelines. Also, reconciling modern genomics with last-generation predictive inferences of the thermal adaptive potential and stochastic demographic modeling (Jenouvrier et al., 2009) is necessary. Open-access resources and data sharing platforms are as crucial in this effort as new integrated analytical pipelines. We are looking forward to seeing more cohesive (Beyer et al., 2020) and systematic studies and predictions across the rich and informative temporal spectrum (Kristensen et al., 2018) of past and future environmental variation (Franks et al., 2013). These efforts should be carried out through a wide range of spatial scales (Parmesan and Hanley, 2015; Way et al., 2015; Gonzalez et al., 2020) spanning contrasting ecosystems (Lenoir et al., 2020), microhabitats (Zellweger et al., 2020), and unrelated taxa, which together may already be keeping heritable adaptive trait differentiation valuable for long-term thermal responses and informative for conservation prioritizations (Barnosky et al., 2017; Elsen et al., 2020).

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Author contributions

AC conceived this mini-review. FL-H collected the literature and prepared diagrams. DO-R compiled the historical climate data. AC wrote the first draft of the mini-review with further contributions from FL-H and DO-R. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.

Funding

AC was supported by grants 4.1-2016-00418 and BS2017-0036 from Vetenskapsrådet (VR) and Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien (KVA), respectively. The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the SIMONS Collaboration on the Origins of Life support DO-R. The editorial fund from the Colombian Corporation for Agricultural Research (AGROSAVIA) was thanked for subsidizing the mini-review B-type processing charge.

Acknowledgments

We acknowledge thoughtful discussions with M. W. Blair regarding the genetic basis of thermal adaptation that took place with AC and DO-R during the Erasmus funded workshop “Molecular Breeding for Abiotic Constraints in Plants” held in Montpellier (France) during the summer of 2012. Some of the ideas discussed here were also framed into perspective, thanks to suggestions from A. A. Hoffmann to AC as part of the “Climate Change and Evolution” symposium during the XIV Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) held at Lisbon (Portugal) in August 2013. The Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC) Graduate School on Genomes and Phenotypes from Uppsala University is recognized for promoting AC participation in this meeting. AGROSAVIA’s Department for Research Capacity Building is credited for granting time to AC to carry out synergistic discussions and progress meetings during 2016 and 2017 in order to pursue this mini-review, as well as for sponsoring FL-H’s internship during 2018. We thank D. Royer for the Cenozoic temperature, CO2, and species richness dataset. Special thanks are given to M. J. Torres-Urrego for support while drafting and revising this mini-review. The topic editor and the two reviewers are recognized for their thoughtful suggestions to improve the scope of the mini-review, as well as for making possible the insightful special issue on “Coping with Climate Change: A Genomic Perspective on Thermal Adaptation.”

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Supplementary material

The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2020.564515/full#supplementary-material

FIGURE S1

Past and future of thermal and CO2 variation, and their correlates with past biodiversity. (A) Temperature and richness of plant species (from pollen) for the Cenozoic Era (65 Mya – present). Temperature estimates (Supplementary Table S1) were computed by Hansen et al. (2013) using the original δ18O record from Zachos et al. (2008). Richness of plant species from pollen data (Supplementary Table S1) is based on 15 Neotropical stratigraphic sections inspected by Jaramillo et al. (2006). This profile goes from 65 to 20 Mya due to a lack of more recent suitable sampling records. (B) Projections of the near-surface temperature anomalies to 2,050 (Supplementary Table S2), which follow the CIMP5 RCP 8.5 scenario from the KNMI (http://climexp.knmi.nl/) repository averaged from an original 5-min resolution. Light gray shaded areas depict minimum and maximum estimates. (C) Atmospheric CO2 and richness of plant species (as in A) for the Cenozoic Era (65 Mya – present). CO2 records are an updated version (Supplementary Table S1) derived from Royer and Chernoff (2013), originally compiled by Beerling and Royer (2011). (D) Projected CO2 concentration (ppm) to 2,050 also follow the CIMP5 RCP 8.5 scenario, as in B (Supplementary Table S3).

TABLE S1

Dataset of temperature, atmospheric CO2, and richness of plant species for the Cenozoic Era (65 Mya – present for temperature and CO2, and 65–20 Mya for richness of plant species). Temperature estimates were computed by Hansen et al. (2013) from five-point running means of the original temporal resolution of the δ18O record from Zachos et al. (2008), a profile of surface low-magnesium calcitic fossils (including planktonic foraminifera, belemintes, brachiopods, and bivalves) that was lower during periods with warmer seawater. Atmospheric CO2 corresponds to an updated version from Royer and Chernoff (2013), originally compiled by Beerling and Royer (2011). Richness of plant species is based on pollen data from Jaramillo et al. (2006), who analyzed 1,530 samples from 15 stratigraphic sections in Colombia and Venezuela (Neotropics).

TABLE S2

Projections of thermal variation to 2,050. Simulation of Near-Surface Air Temperature Anomalies (°C) from 1,860 to 2,050 follow the CIMP5 RCP 8.5 scenario from the KNMI (http://climexp.knmi.nl/) database averaged from an original 5 min resolution. Minimum and maximum temperature estimates were generated by the coupled ACCESS v.1.0 model specifically designed for the CIMP5 project (Kowalczyk et al., 2013).

TABLE S3

Projections of CO2 concentration (ppm) to 2,050. Simulations follow the CIMP5 RCP 8.5 scenario from 1,860 to 2,050 available at KNMI (http://climexp.knmi.nl/) database averaged from an original 5 min resolution.

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coalescent theory, genome-wide association studies, genome-wide selection scans, genome–environment associations, phylogeography, breeder’s equation, genomic prediction, machine learning

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Cortés AJ, López-Hernández F and Osorio-Rodriguez D (2020) Predicting Thermal Adaptation by Looking Into Populations’ Genomic Past. Front. Genet. 11:564515. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2020.564515

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21 May 2020

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24 August 2020

Published

25 September 2020

Volume

11 - 2020

Edited by

Margarida Matos, University of Lisbon, Portugal

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Anti Vasemägi, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; Takeshi Kawakami, Independent Researcher, Boston, United States

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*Correspondence: Andrés J. Cortés,

This article was submitted to Evolutionary and Population Genetics, a section of the journal Frontiers in Genetics

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