Interpreting the genomic landscape of speciation: a road map for finding barriers to gene flow

M Ravinet, R Faria, RK Butlin, J Galindo… - Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Speciation, the evolution of reproductive isolation among populations, is continuous,
complex, and involves multiple, interacting barriers. Until it is complete, the effects of this …

The utility of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data in phylogenetics

AD Leaché, JR Oaks - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Resolving the genealogy of life—the phylogenetic relationships that describe the
evolutionary history of species—remains one of the great challenges of systematic biology …

A supergene determines highly divergent male reproductive morphs in the ruff

C Küpper, M Stocks, JE Risse, N Dos Remedios… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Three strikingly different alternative male mating morphs (aggressive'independents',
semicooperative'satellites' and female-mimic'faeders') coexist as a balanced polymorphism …

Linked selection and recombination rate variation drive the evolution of the genomic landscape of differentiation across the speciation continuum of Ficedula …

R Burri, A Nater, T Kawakami, CF Mugal… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
Speciation is a continuous process during which genetic changes gradually accumulate in
the genomes of diverging species. Recent studies have documented highly heterogeneous …

Discovery and population genomics of structural variation in a songbird genus

MH Weissensteiner, I Bunikis, A Catalán… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Structural variation (SV) constitutes an important type of genetic mutations providing the raw
material for evolution. Here, we uncover the genome-wide spectrum of intra-and interspecific …

Stable recombination hotspots in birds

S Singhal, EM Leffler, K Sannareddy, I Turner, O Venn… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The DNA-binding protein PRDM9 has a critical role in specifying meiotic recombination
hotspots in mice and apes, but it appears to be absent from other vertebrate species …

PSMC analysis of effective population sizes in molecular ecology and its application to black‐and‐white Ficedula flycatchers

K Nadachowska‐Brzyska, R Burri, L Smeds… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Climatic fluctuations during the Quaternary period governed the demography of species and
contributed to population differentiation and ultimately speciation. Studies of these past …

The dynamics of incomplete lineage sorting across the ancient adaptive radiation of neoavian birds

A Suh, L Smeds, H Ellegren - PLoS biology, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The diversification of neoavian birds is one of the most rapid adaptive radiations of extant
organisms. Recent whole-genome sequence analyses have much improved the resolution …

Direct estimate of the rate of germline mutation in a bird

L Smeds, A Qvarnström, H Ellegren - Genome research, 2016 - genome.cshlp.org
The fidelity of DNA replication together with repair mechanisms ensure that the genetic
material is properly copied from one generation to another. However, on extremely rare …

Meta‐analysis of chromosome‐scale crossover rate variation in eukaryotes and its significance to evolutionary genomics

Q Haenel, TG Laurentino, M Roesti… - Molecular ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the distribution of crossovers along chromosomes is crucial to evolutionary
genomics because the crossover rate determines how strongly a genome region is …