Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Admixture between old lineages facilitated contemporary ecological speciation in Lake Constance stickleback

  • David A. Marques,
  • Kay Lucek,
  • Vitor C. Sousa,
  • Laurent Excoffier,
  • Ole Seehausen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12182-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Ecological speciation can proceed rapidly, but the origin of genetic variation facilitating it has remained elusive. Here, the authors show that secondary contact and introgression between deeply diverged lineages of stickleback fish facilitated rapid ecological speciation into lake and stream ecotypes in Lake Constance.