Microevolution of Pieris butterfly genes involved in host-plant adaptation along a host-plant community cline
Y. Okamura, A. Sato, L. Kawaguchi, A. J. Nagano, M. Murakami, H. Vogel, J. Kroymann
This study examines microevolutionary dynamics of NSP and MA genes in Pieris butterflies across Japan, finding NSP diversity correlates with local host plant diversity while MA shows no local adaptation.
bioRxiv · Sep 30, 2021Evolutionary Biology