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SUBMITTER: Smith J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3730661 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Smith Joel J Kronforst Marcus R MR
Biology letters 20130717 4
Hybridization has the potential to transfer beneficial alleles across species boundaries, and there are a growing number of examples in which this has apparently occurred. Recent studies suggest that Heliconius butterflies have transferred wing pattern mimicry alleles between species via hybridization, but ancestral polymorphism could also produce a signature of shared ancestry around mimicry genes. To distinguish between these alternative hypotheses, we measured DNA sequence divergence around p ...[more]