Host-Associated Genetic Differentiation in the Face of Ongoing Gene Flow: Ecological Speciation in a Pathogenic Parasite of Freshwater Fish.

Abstract excerpt

Adaptive evolution in response to varying environments, leading to population divergence, is among the most intriguing processes of speciation. However, the extent to which these adaptive processes effectively drive population divergence amidst ongoing gene flow remains controversial. Our study addresses this by analyzing population genetic structure, gene flow, and genomic divergence between lineages of a...

Topics

• Animals
• Gene Flow
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
• Genetic Speciation
• Host-Parasite Interactions
• Cestoda