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Repeatability of adaptation in sunflowers reveals that genomic regions harbouring inversions also drive adaptation in species lacking an inversion.
eLife - 14 Dec 2023
Soudi Shaghayegh, Jahani Mojtaba, Todesco Marco, Owens Gregory L, Bercovich Natalia, Rieseberg Loren H, Yeaman Sam
Abstract excerpt
Local adaptation commonly involves alleles of large effect, which experience fitness advantages when in positive linkage disequilibrium (LD). Because segregating inversions suppress recombination and facilitate the maintenance of LD between locally adapted loci, they are also commonly found to be associated with adaptive divergence. However, it is unclear what fraction of an adaptive response can be attributed to...
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