{"id":343,"date":"2023-04-23T04:04:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T04:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=343"},"modified":"2023-08-15T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T13:28:11","slug":"zoe-meziere","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/people\/zoe-meziere\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Meziere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Zoe_Meziere_infield-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-341\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Zoe_Meziere_infield-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Zoe_Meziere_infield-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Zoe_Meziere_infield-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Zoe_Meziere_infield-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Zoe_Meziere_infield-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Genetic diversity and climate change adaptation in corals of the Great Barrier Reef<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understanding the extent of genetic diversity between and within species and how it is partitioned and maintained across space are important goals in evolutionary biology. For taxa distributed across spatial and&nbsp;environmental&nbsp;gradients, the distribution of genetic variation depends on the interplay between gene flow, genetic drift and natural selection, which can now be&nbsp;disentangled using genomic data. In the ocean, while no physical barriers seem to impede genetic connectivity, examples of&nbsp;sympatric speciation and local-scale genetic differentiation suggest that&nbsp;environmental selection might be important.&nbsp;In my PhD, I will study&nbsp;two reef-building coral species across the&nbsp;Great Barrier Reef&nbsp;and&nbsp;combine genomic data, environmental data and experimental validation to investigate both inter-specific and intra-specific genetic diversity. I aim to&nbsp;characterise&nbsp;how neutral and adaptive genetic&nbsp;variation are&nbsp;distributed in space as well as&nbsp;the environmental drivers and genomic basis of&nbsp;divergence.&nbsp;Overall, these studies will provide evolutionary-sound&nbsp;information on the adaptive potential and vulnerability of coral&nbsp;populations&nbsp;under climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo credit: Marta Panero<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genetic diversity and climate change adaptation in corals of the Great Barrier Reef Understanding the extent of genetic diversity between and within species and how it is partitioned and maintained across space are important goals<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/people\/zoe-meziere\/\"> Read more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353,"parent":102,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343\/revisions\/363"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cynthiariginos.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}