Prof. Hannes Svardal - EVECO (UAntwerp):
Sex, selection, and (barriers to) gene flow –the complicated evolutionary histories of large chromosomal inversions in benthic Malawi cichlids
Jonas Lescroart - EVECO (UAntwerp):
Phylogenomics of Neotropical wild cats show a history of rapid speciation and hybridization
Date: 19/04/2024
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Location: Campus Middelheim, room G.004
(Middelheimlaan 1, 2020 Antwerp)
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Sex, selection, and (barriers to) gene flow –the complicated evolutionary histories of large chromosomal inversions in benthic Malawi cichlids
Phylogenomics of Neotropical wild cats show a history of rapid speciation and hybridization
Whole-genome analyses of wild species are refining much of our knowledge of the tree of life. The evolutionary history of the most species-rich genus of wild cats, genus Leopardus (NL: pardelkatten), has always been unclear, with contrasting conclusions about its phylogeny and taxonomy arising from both morphological and genetic data. We used whole-genome sequencing data to quantify phylogenomic discordance in the genus, which enabled us to infer the dominant phylogeny, the timing of speciation events and the amount of interspecific hybridization.
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