Aurélien De Jode, Rui Faria, Giulio Formenti, Ying Sims, Timothy P Smith, Alan Tracey, Jonathan M D Wood, Zuzanna B Zagrodzka, Kerstin Johannesson, Roger K Butlin, Erica H Leder
The intertidal gastropod Littorina saxatilis is a model system to study speciation and local adaptation. The repeated occurrence of distinct ecotypes showing different levels of genetic divergence makes L. saxatilis particularly suited to study different stages of the speciation continuum in the same lineage. A major finding is the presence of several large chromosomal inversions associated with the divergence of ecotypes and, specifically, the species offers a system to study the role of inversions in this divergence...
April 8, 2024: Genome Biology and Evolution