The genomic landscape of species divergence in Ficedula flycatchers

The results of sequencing the collared flycatcher genome, and re-sequencing population samples from this species and its sister species, the pied flycatcher, reveal the existence of areas of high sequence divergence compared to background levels, and suggest that complex repeat structures may drive species divergence and that sex chromosomes and autosomes are at different stages of speciation. Flycatchers are important models for speciation. To provide genome-wide insight into the divergence that occurred between lineages during speciation, Hans Ellegren et al. have sequenced the pied flycatcher genome and re-sequenced population samples from this and another species. The results reveal the existence of…

• NS
  National Science Foundation
• SN
  Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

  Awards: 140171, 134299, PBLAB3
• KO
  Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
• V
  Vetenskapsrådet
• UU
  Uppsala Universitet
• UM
  Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science