Estimates of introgression as a function of pairwise distances.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research over the last 10 years highlights the increasing importance of hybridization between species as a major force structuring the evolution of genomes and potentially providing raw material for adaptation by natural and/or sexual selection. Fueled by research in a few model systems where phenotypic hybrids are easily identified, research into hybridization and introgression (the flow of genes between species) has exploded with the advent of whole-genome sequencing and emerging methods to detect the signature of hybridization at the whole-genome or chromosome level. Amongst these are a general class of methods that utilize patterns of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across a tree as markers of hybridization. These methods have been applied to a variety of geno

SUBMITTER: Pfeifer B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6480520 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature