Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Signatures of mitonuclear coevolution in a warbler species complex

  • Silu Wang,
  • Madelyn J. Ore,
  • Else K. Mikkelsen,
  • Julie Lee-Yaw,
  • David P. L. Toews,
  • Sievert Rohwer,
  • Darren Irwin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24586-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Little is known on how mitonuclear interactions influence genomic divergence among hybrid and parental lineages. A study of hybridizing wood warbler species complex finds a nuclear gene block with mitochondrial functions coevolves with mitochondrial genome, driven by climate-associated divergent selection underlying hybrid-parental population divergence.