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Selection against recombinant hybrids maintains reproductive isolation in hybridizing Populus species despite F1 fertility and recurrent gene flow

Christe, Camille ; Stölting, Kai N. ; Bresadola, Luisa ; Fussi, Barbara ; Heinze, Berthold ; Wegmann, Daniel ; Lexer, Christian

In: Molecular Ecology, 2016, p. -

Natural hybrid zones have proven to be precious tools for understanding the origin and maintenance of reproductive isolation (RI) and therefore species. Most available genomic studies of hybrid zones using whole or partial genome resequencing approaches have focused on comparisons of the parental source populations involved in genome admixture, rather than exploring fine-scale patterns of...

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Integrating the ‘genomic mosaic’ view of species into studies of biotic interactions: a comment on Bernhardsson et al. (2013)

Lexer, Christian ; Caseys, Celine ; Stritt, Christoph ; Whitham, Thomas G.

In: Ecology Letters, 2013, vol. 16, no. 12, p. 1515–e7

The co-occurrence of geographical structure in herbivore communities, metabolomes and defence genes in forest trees has been analysed in the context of ‘geographical mosaics’ of coevolution. A deeper understanding of these important issues will require full integration of a ‘genomic mosaic’ view of species into community ecology.

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Genomic scan for single nucleotide polymorphisms reveals patterns of divergence and gene flow between ecologically divergent species

Stölting, Kai N. ; Nipper, Rick ; Lindtke, Dorothea ; Caseys, Celine ; Waeber, Stephan ; Castiglione, Stefano ; Lexer, Christian

In: Molecular Ecology, 2013, vol. 22, no. 3, p. 842–855

Recent advances in population genomics have triggered great interest in the genomic landscape of divergence in taxa with ‘porous’ species boundaries. One important obstable of previous studies of this topic was the low genomic coverage achieved. This issue can now be overcome by the use of ‘next generation’ or short-read DNA-sequencing approaches capable of assaying many thousands of...

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Recombinant hybrids retain heterozygosity at many loci: new insights into the genomics of reproductive isolation in Populus

Lindtke, Dorothea ; Buerkle, C. Alex ; Barbará, Thelma ; Heinze, Berthold ; Castiglione, Stefano ; Bartha, Denes ; Lexer, Christian

In: Molecular Ecology, 2012, p. -

The maintenance of species barriers in the face of gene flow is often thought to result from strong selection against intermediate genotypes, thereby preserving genetic differentiation. Most speciation genomic studies thus aim to identify exceptionally divergent loci between populations, but divergence will be affected by many processes other than reproductive isolation (RI) and speciation....