Speciation Genomics in the Tiger Whiptail Lizards (Aspidoscelis tigris Complex).

ABSTRACT: The transition from small genetic to genome-scale datasets for studying biodiversity has revealed that genetic exchange through introgressive hybridization is a widespread phenomenon in nature. Despite this, a lack of high-quality reference genomes for most non-model species limits our understanding of the impact of this process for many taxonomic groups. This restricts the range of insights that genomic tools can provide for conservation biologists, who often hope to employ genomic datasets to accurately identify historically isolated lineages to protect and to predict their evolutionary fate in the face of environmental change. Tiger whiptail lizards (Aspidoscelis tigris complex) are an abundant and important ecological component of ecosystems across the southwestern United States. In th

SUBMITTER: Barley AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12720011 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature