Published August 4, 2021
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A widely diverged locus involved in locomotor adaptation in Heliconius butterflies
Creators
- 1. Peking University
- 2. University of Chicago
- 3. University of Arkansas
Description
Heliconius butterflies have undergone adaptive radiation and therefore serve as an excellent system for exploring the continuum of speciation and adaptive evolution. However, there is a long-lasting paradox between their convergent mimetic wing patterns and rapid divergence in speciation. Here, we characterize a locus that consistently displays high divergence among Heliconius butterflies and acts as an introgression hotspot. We further show that this locus contains multiple genes related to locomotion and conserved in Lepidoptera. In light of these findings, we consider that locomotion traits may be under selection, and if these are heritable traits that are selected for, then they might act as species barriers.
Data availability
Sequence data are available from NCBI SRA: https://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/ (NCBI PRJEB12740, PRJNA73595, PRJEB1749, PRJEB8011, PRJNA324415, PRJNA308754, PRJEB21091, PRJNA471310, PRJEB11772, PRJNA577441, PRJEB2745, PRJNA552081, and PRJNA435610). All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper and/or the Supplementary Materials.
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- DOI
- 10.1126/sciadv.abh2340
- Other
- oai:uchicago.tind.io:10998
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- 31871271
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- 31725019
- Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality
- JQ19021