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SUBMITTER: Lee CR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5607633 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature ecology & evolution 20170403 5
Fixed chromosomal inversions can reduce gene flow and promote speciation in two ways: by suppressing recombination and by carrying locally favoured alleles at multiple loci. However, it is unknown whether favoured mutations slowly accumulate on older inversions or if young inversions spread because they capture pre-existing adaptive quantitative trait loci (QTLs). By genetic mapping, chromosome painting and genome sequencing, we have identified a major inversion controlling ecologically importan ...[more]