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  1. In a first, evolutionary biologists have identified a gene that influences visual preferences in tropical #butterflies
    phys.org/news/2024-03-evolutio

    #AdaptiveIntrogression of a visual preference gene science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    "We've known for quite a while that the red color pattern gene was introduced from one species to the other through #hybridization, and suspected that the same might be true for the corresponding preference. To finally show it, and identify the specific gene is really exciting"

  2. The most interesting in a selective sweep is the shoulders.

    New preprint by the team on the vanishing chromosomal footprint of an anthropogenic introgression of locally favoured foreign genes

    Falling shoulders ahead: adaptive alien genes are maintained amid vanishing introgression footprint in sea squirts. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

    @darwin
    #PopGen #AdaptiveIntrogression #SelectiveSweep #UrbanEvolution #Hybridization
    #AnthropogenicHybridization #AnthropogenicIntrogression