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Chromosomal Fusions Facilitate Adaptation to Divergent Environments in Threespine Stickleback.
Molecular biology and evolution - 3 Feb 2022
Liu Zuyao, Roesti Marius, Marques David, Hiltbrunner Melanie, Saladin Verena, Peichel Catherine L
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Chromosomal fusions are hypothesized to facilitate adaptation to divergent environments, both by bringing together previously unlinked adaptive alleles and by creating regions of low recombination that facilitate the linkage of adaptive alleles; but, there is little empirical evidence to support this hypothesis. Here, we address this knowledge gap by studying threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), in...
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