A few genetic variants go a long way in differentiating Penstemon species

The integrity of hybridizing species is usually maintained by genome-wide selection or by selection on a few genomic regions. A study published in PLOS Biology finds a different pattern—60 SNPs spread across the genome differentiate a Penstemon species pair.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  PLoS Biology

• Publication date

  2023-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002322PMID 37773919PMCID 10540943
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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