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Rapid convergent evolution in wild crickets.
Current biology : CB - 16 Jun 2014
Pascoal Sonia, Cezard Timothee, Eik-Nes Aasta, Gharbi Karim, Majewska Jagoda, Payne Elizabeth, Ritchie Michael G, Zuk Marlene, Bailey Nathan W
Abstract excerpt
The earliest stages of convergent evolution are difficult to observe in the wild, limiting our understanding of the incipient genomic architecture underlying convergent phenotypes. To address this, we capitalized on a novel trait, flatwing, that arose and proliferated at the start of the 21st century in a population of field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus) on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Flatwing erases...
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