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Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 1 Aug 2022
Kim Kang-Wook, De-Kayne Rishi, Gordon Ian J, Omufwoko Kennedy Saitoti, Martins Dino J, Ffrench-Constant Richard, Martin Simon H
Abstract excerpt
Supergenes maintain adaptive clusters of alleles in the face of genetic mixing. Although usually attributed to inversions, supergenes can be complex, and reconstructing the precise processes that led to recombination suppression and their timing is challenging. We investigated the origin of the BC supergene, which controls variation in warning coloration in the African monarch butterfly, Danaus chrysippus. By...
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