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Genomic Displacement and Shift of the Hybrid Zone in the Japanese Fire-Bellied Newt.
The Journal of heredity - 16 Mar 2018
Tominaga Atsushi, Matsui Masafumi, Yoshikawa Natsuhiko, Eto Koshiro, Nishikawa Kanto
Abstract excerpt
Hybridizations on a secondary contact zone between 2 diverged lineages can have various evolutionary consequences, including the genetic replacement of one lineage by another. We detected such a case between 2 lineages (the Central and Western lineages) of the Japanese fire-bellied newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster in the Chugoku district of western Japan. We genotyped 269 individuals from 30 localities using the...
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