Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Rapid parallel adaptation despite gene flow in silent crickets

  • Xiao Zhang,
  • Jack G. Rayner,
  • Mark Blaxter,
  • Nathan W. Bailey

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20263-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Gene flow is classically thought to impede local adaptation via parallel evolution. However, a genomic study on Hawaiian crickets from different island populations finds evidence of parallel adaptation to the same lethal parasitoid in spite of strong ongoing gene flow.