Coupling of twelve putative chromosomal inversions maintains a strong barrier to gene flow between snail ecotypes

A Le Moan, S Stankowski, M Rafajlović… - Evolution …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Chromosomal rearrangements can lead to the coupling of reproductive barriers, but whether
and how they contribute to the completion of speciation remains unclear. Marine snails of …

Chromosome-scale Genome Assembly of the Rough Periwinkle Littorina saxatilis

A De Jode, R Faria, G Formenti, Y Sims… - Genome Biology and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The intertidal gastropod Littorina saxatilis is a model system to study speciation and local
adaptation. The repeated occurrence of distinct ecotypes showing different levels of genetic …

Common misconceptions of speciation

JM Walker, ESM van der Heijden… - … Journal of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Speciation is a complex process that can unfold in many different ways. Speciation
researchers sometimes simplify core principles in their writing in a way that implies …

Genomics‐Informed Range Predictions Under Global Warming Reveal Reduced Adaptive Diversity Whilst Buffering Range Shifts for a Marine Snail

XN Lin, CY Ma, LS Hu, ML Liao, LX Ma… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the genetic basis of local adaptation in thermal performance is useful for
predicting species distribution shifts under anthropogenic climate change. Many species are …

Local adaptation and reproductive isolation: when does speciation start?

RK Butlin, R Faria - Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The speciation process often takes a long time. The speciation continuum framework has
been useful to reconstruct the evolutionary processes that result in the formation of new …

Chromosome-level genome assemblies of two littorinid marine snails indicate genetic basis of intertidal adaptation and ancient karyotype evolved from bilaterian …

YS Wang, MY Li, YL Li, YQ Li, DX Xue, JX Liu - GigaScience, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Living in the intertidal environment, littorinid snails are excellent models for understanding
genetic mechanisms underlying adaptation to harsh fluctuating environments. Furthermore …

Keeping the door ajar: when is a little gene flow a good thing?

R Butlin - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Speciation is not an event but a process, and one that may take a very long time. It can be
helpful to think about a “speciation continuum,” either in one dimension (reproductive …

Ecotype formation in the European anchovy fuelled by structural variants of different origins and genetic interactions with a southern lineage

L Meyer, P Barry, C Arbiol, R Castilho… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The speciation of ecotypes can unfold in diverse ways and likely depends on multiple
processes. The variants involved in ecotype divergence can include new mutations as well …

[图书][B] The role of chromosomal inversions in rough periwinkle snails (Littorina saxatilis)

J Reeve - 2024 - gupea.ub.gu.se
Chromosomal inversions are genomic rearrangements that may have a major role in local
adaptation, facilitating ecotype formation and speciation. Recombination can hinder these …