Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

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

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20507-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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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 rates.