bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/151431; this version posted June 19, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-ND 4.0 International license. Evolution of cold response in Pooideae 1 Comparative transcriptomics reveals lineage specific evolution of 2 cold response in Pooideae 3 Lars Grønvold1*, Marian Schubert2*, Simen R. Sandve3, Siri Fjellheim2 and Torgeir R. 4 Hvidsten1,4 5 *Contributed equally 6 1Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life 7 Sciences, NO-1432, Ås, Norway. 8 2Department of Plant Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås NO-1432, Norway. 9 3Centre for Integrative Genetics (CIGENE), Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, 10 Norwegian University of Life Sciences, NO-1432, Ås, Norway. 11 4Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, SE-90187, 12 Umeå, Sweden. 13 Author for correspondence: 14 Torgeir R. Hvidsten 15 Tel: +4767232491 16 Email:
[email protected] 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/151431; this version posted June 19, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-ND 4.0 International license. Evolution of cold response in Pooideae 17 Abstract 18 Background: Understanding how complex traits evolve through adaptive changes in gene 19 regulation remains a major challenge in evolutionary biology.