Genome-wide macroevolutionary signatures of key innovations in butterflies colonizing new host plants

Arms races between herbivores and plants have likely affected their evolutionary histories, which could have led to their high diversity. Allio et al. find that butterflies shifting to new host plants have more adaptive molecular signatures across their genomes and show repeated bursts of speciation...

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Main Authors: Rémi Allio, Benoit Nabholz, Stefan Wanke, Guillaume Chomicki, Oscar A. Pérez-Escobar, Adam M. Cotton, Anne-Laure Clamens, Gaël J. Kergoat, Felix A. H. Sperling, Fabien L. Condamine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20507-3