Alejandro Sanchez-Flores, Fernando Peñaloza, Javier Carpinteyro-Ponce, Nestor Nazario-Yepiz, Cei Abreu-Goodger, Carlos A Machado, Therese Ann Markow
We report genomes of two species of cactophilic Drosophila: Drosophila arizonae and D. navojoa These two are the closest relatives of D. mojavensis, forming the D. mojavensis cluster. D. mojavensis and D. arizonae diverged from D. navojoa ∼5.8 Mya, while the split between D. arizonae and D. mojavensis is more recent, at 1.5 Mya. Together the three genomes provide opportunities to examine genomic changes associated with speciation and host shifts in this ecologically defined group of flies. The three species are also separated by fixed inversion differences in three of their six chromosomes...
October 13, 2016: G3: Genes—Genomes—Genetics