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Record W4411112629 · doi:10.1111/nph.70287

Measuring natural selection on the transcriptome

2025· review· en· W4411112629 on OpenAlexafffund
John R. Stinchcombe, John K. Kelly

Bibliographic record

VenueNew Phytologist · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoUniversity of King's College
FundersDivision of Integrative Organismal SystemsDivision of Molecular and Cellular BiosciencesNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaSwedish Collegium for Advanced StudyNational Science Foundation
KeywordsSelection (genetic algorithm)Natural selectionExtant taxonBiologyTranscriptomeField (mathematics)Computational biologyComputer scienceMachine learningArtificial intelligenceEvolutionary biologyGeneGene expressionGeneticsMathematics

Abstract

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The level and pattern of gene expression is increasingly recognized as a principal determinant of plant phenotypes and thus of fitness. The estimation of natural selection on the transcriptome is an emerging research discipline. We here review recent progress and consider the challenges posed by the high dimensionality of the transcriptome for the multiple regression methods routinely used to characterize selection in field experiments. We consider several different methods, including classical multivariate statistical approaches, regularized regression, latent factor models, and machine learning, that address the fact that the number of traits potentially affecting fitness (each expressed gene) can greatly exceed the number of plants that researchers can reasonably monitor in a field study. While such studies are currently few, extant data are sufficient to illustrate several of these approaches. With additional methodological development coupled with applications to a broader range of species, we believe prospects are favorable for directly characterizing selection on gene expression within natural plant populations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.008

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.062
GPT teacher head0.287
Teacher spread0.226 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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Published2025
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