Article
Recurring adaptive introgression of a supergene variant that determines social organization.
Nature communications - 11 Mar 2022
Stolle Eckart, Pracana Rodrigo, López-Osorio Federico, Priebe Marian K, Hernández Gabriel Luis, Castillo-Carrillo Claudia, Arias Maria Cristina, Paris Carolina Ivon, Bollazzi Martin, Priyam Anurag, Wurm Yannick
Abstract excerpt
Introgression has been proposed as an essential source of adaptive genetic variation. However, a key barrier to adaptive introgression is that recombination can break down combinations of alleles that underpin many traits. This barrier might be overcome in supergene regions, where suppressed recombination leads to joint inheritance across many loci. Here, we study the evolution of a large supergene region that...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Ants
- Male
- Phylogeny
- Social Behavior