Daily Archives: 6 Aug, 2015

Selection scans, and the genomics of adaptive/maladaptive introgression

Posted on 6 Aug, 2015 by Arun Sethuraman

Natural selection, and the adaptive evolution of hybrid reproductive incompatibilities post divergence are known to be major drivers of speciation. At the phenotype level, these manifest as fitness differences between introgressing populations. At the genomic level, speciation “genes” or “islands” … Continue reading →

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