Silent crickets reveal the genomic footprint of recent adaptive trait loss
Sonia Pascoal, Judith E. Risse, Xiao Zhang, Mark Blaxter, Timothee Cezard, Richard J. Challis, Karim Gharbi, John Hunt, Sujai Kumar, Emma Langan, Xuan Liu, Jack G. Rayner, Michael G. Ritchie, Basten L. Snoek, Urmi Trivedi, Nathan Bailey
The paper examines the genomic effects of recent sexual signal loss in crickets, finding pleiotropy, hitchhiking, and regulatory disruption associated with the trait loss.
bioRxiv · Dec 9, 2018 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology