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Data from: Evolvability meets biogeography: evolutionary potential decreases at high and low environmental favourability Fav_CVa_wildbirds.xlsx Data from: Evolvability meets biogeography: evolutionary potential decreases at high and low environmental favourability Fav_Ia_wildbirds.xlsx Species distribution and environmental variables Here we provide the environmental variables used to construct the SDM for each species. Description of the variables are given in the ESM of the paper Sps_environmental_variables.csv, Understanding and forecasting the effects of environmental change on wild populations requires knowledge on a critical question: do populations have the ability to evolve in response to that change? However, our knowledge on how evolution works in wild conditions under different environmental circumstances is extremely limited. We investigated how environmental variation influences the evolutionary potential of phenotypic traits. We used published data to collect or calculate 135 estimates of evolvability of morphological traits of European wild bird populations. We characterized the environmental favourability of each population throughout the species' breeding distribution. Our results suggest that the evolutionary potential of morphological traits decreases as environmental favourability becomes high or low. Strong environmental selection pressures and high intra-specific competition may reduce species' evolutionary potential in low- and high- favourability areas, respectively. This suggests that species may be least able to adapt to new climate conditions at their range margins and at the centre. Our results underscore the need to consider the evolutionary potential of populations when studying the drivers of species distributions, particularly when predicting the effects of environmental change. We discuss the utility of integrating evolutionary dynamics into a biogeographical perspective to understand how environmental variation shapes evolutionary patterns. This approach would also produce more reliable predictions about the effect of environmental change on population persistence and therefore on biodiversity., Peer reviewed

Data-Malo et al 2017 Data for the main analysis of the paper entitled "A father effect explains sex-ratio bias", relating the effects of sperm nucleus area and sperm nucleus length on offspring sex ratio (figure 1), the effects of the coefficient of inbreeding on offspring sex ratio weighing each data point for the total number of offspring (figure 2), and the effects of the coefficient of inbreeding on sperm nucleus area and sperm nucleus length (figure 3)., Sex ratio allocation has important fitness consequences, and theory predicts that parents should adjust offspring sex ratio in cases where the fitness returns of producing male and female offspring vary. The ability of fathers to bias offspring sex ratios has traditionally been dismissed given the expectation of an equal proportion of X- and Y-chromosome-bearing sperm (CBS) in ejaculates due to segregation of sex chromosomes at meiosis. This expectation has been recently refuted. Here we used Peromyscus leucopus to demonstrate that sex ratio is explained by an exclusive effect of the father, and suggest a likely mechanism by which male-driven sex-ratio bias is attained. We identified a male sperm morphological marker that is associated with the mechanism leading to sex ratio bias; differences among males in the sperm nucleus area (a proxy for the sex chromosome that the sperm contains) explain 22% variation in litter sex ratio. We further show the role played by the sperm nucleus area as a mediator in the relationship between individual genetic variation and sex-ratio bias. Fathers with high levels of genetic variation had ejaculates with a higher proportion of sperm with small nuclei area. This, in turn, led to siring a higher proportion of sons (25% increase in sons per 0.1 decrease in the inbreeding coefficient). Our results reveal a plausible mechanism underlying unexplored male-driven sex-ratio biases. We also discuss why this pattern of paternal bias can be adaptive. This research puts to rest the idea that father contribution to sex ratio variation should be disregarded in vertebrates, and will stimulate research on evolutionary constraints to sex ratios—for example, whether fathers and mothers have divergent, coinciding, or neutral sex allocation interests. Finally, these results offer a potential explanation for those intriguing cases in which there are sex ratio biases, such as in humans., Peer reviewed

Provided datasets correspond to the supplementary material generated for Perez RF et al (2018)., Distinct chromatin signatures of DNA hypomethylation in aging and cancer. Raúl F, Pérez et al. (DOI: 10.1111/acel.12744), Cancer is an aging-associated disease but the underlying molecular links between these processes are still largely unknown. Gene promoters that become hypermethylated in aging and cancer share a common chromatin signature in ES cells. In addition, there is also global DNA hypomethylation in both processes. However, any similarities of the regions where this loss of DNA methylation occurs is currently not well characterized, nor is it known whether such regions also share a common chromatin signature in aging and cancer. To address this issue we analysed TCGA DNA methylation data from a total of 2,311 samples, including control and cancer cases from patients with breast, kidney, thyroid, skin, brain and lung tumors and healthy blood, and integrated the results with histone, chromatin state and transcription factor binding site data from the NIH Roadmap Epigenomics and ENCODE projects. We identified 98,857 CpG sites differentially methylated in aging, and 286,746 in cancer. Hyper- and hypomethylated changes in both processes each had a similar genomic distribution across tissues and displayed tissue-independent alterations. The identified hypermethylated regions in aging and cancer shared a similar bivalent chromatin signature. In contrast, hypomethylated DNA sequences occurred in very different chromatin contexts. DNA hypomethylated sequences were enriched at genomic regions marked with the activating histone posttranslational modification H3K4me1 in aging, whilst in cancer, loss of DNA methylation was primarily associated with the repressive H3K9me3 mark., Peer reviewed

Supplementary figures and supplementary data tables from MethylationEPIC arrays (Tejedor et al), plus a compiled dataset including raw methylation intensities, processed β-values and Phenotypic data from HumanMethylation450 arrays collected from datasets GSE63409, GSE49618, GSE88824 and GSE49031, and HumanMethylationEPIC arrays deposited in E-MTAB-6315 entry from ArrayExpress., Epigenetic regulation plays an important role in cellular development and differentiation. A detailed map of the DNA methylation dynamics that occur during cell differentiation would contribute to decipher the molecular networks governing cell fate commitment. In this study we used the most recent Illumina MethylationEPIC Beadchip platform to describe the genome-wide DNA methylation changes observed throughout hematopoietic maturation by analyzing multiple hematopoietic cell types at different developmental stages., Grants: European Commission: INFANTLEUKEMIA - GENOMIC, CELLULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION OFINFANT MLL-AF4+ ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA (646903)., Peer reviewed