Local adaptation and sexual selection drive intra-island diversification in a songbird lineage: differential divergence in autosomes and sex chromosomes.
Yann XC Bourgeois, Joris AM Bertrand, Boris Delahaie, Hélène Holota, Christophe Thébaud, Borja Milá
The paper examines divergence in a songbird lineage on Reunion Island, finding natural selection drives highland adaptation while sexual selection on sex chromosomes differentiates lowland forms.
bioRxiv · Jun 22, 2018 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology