Reproductive Isolation due to Divergent Ecological Selection Is Accompanied by Vast Genomic Instability in Experimentally Evolved Yeast Populations.

Abstract excerpt

Populations evolving independently in divergent environments accumulate genetic differences and potentially evolve reproductive isolation as a by-product of divergence. The speed and mechanisms underlying this process are difficult to investigate because we rarely get the opportunity to witness them in natural settings, and histories of selection and gene flow between populations are often unknown. Here, we...

Topics

• Reproductive Isolation
• Genomic Instability
• Selection, Genetic
• Genome, Fungal
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae