Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Rapid neo-sex chromosome evolution and incipient speciation in a major forest pest

  • Ryan R. Bracewell,
  • Barbara J. Bentz,
  • Brian T. Sullivan,
  • Jeffrey M. Good

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01761-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The evolution of new sex chromosomes potentially generates reproductive isolation. Here, Bracewell et al. combine crossing experiments with population and functional genomics to characterize neo-sex chromosome evolution and incipient speciation in the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae.