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This research explores the genetic mechanisms behind hybridization in damselfly species to understand how genetic variation is created and maintained. By studying hybrid zones, the project aims to determine whether adaptive genes are more likely to cross species boundaries compared to speciation genes.
A major challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand how genetic variation is created and maintained.
Recent studies confirm the old idea introduced by Anderson in the 1940’s in his monograph “introgressive hybridisation”, namely that hybridisation can provide a bridge for the genetic exchange of adaptations (genes that increase fitness).
In general, it is thought that adaptive genes have a greater chance to cross species boundaries than key “speciation genes” or “genomics islands of diver…
MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University
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