A Phylogenomic Assessment of Processes Underpinning Convergent Evolution in Open-Habitat Chats.

ABSTRACT: Insights into the processes underpinning convergent evolution advance our understanding of the contributions of ancestral, introgressed, and novel genetic variation to phenotypic evolution. Phylogenomic analyses characterizing genome-wide gene tree heterogeneity can provide first clues about the extent of ILS and of introgression and thereby into the potential of these processes or (in their absence) the need to invoke novel mutations to underpin convergent evolution. Here, we were interested in understanding the processes involved in convergent evolution in open-habitat chats (wheatears of the genus Oenanthe and their relatives). To this end, based on whole-genome resequencing data from 50 taxa of 44 species, we established the species tree, characterized gene tree heterogeneity, and inve

SUBMITTER: Alaei Kakhki N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10161543 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature