Genomic evidence for homoploid hybrid speciation between ancestors of two different genera

Carpinus fangiana exhibits intermediate morphology between C. viminea and Ostrya rehderiana. Here, the authors report that Carpinus sect. Distegocarpus likely originate through homoploid hybrid speciation (HHS) during the early divergence between Carpinus and Ostrya through genomic analyses.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zefu Wang, Minghui Kang, Jialiang Li, Zhiyang Zhang, Yufei Wang, Chunlin Chen, Yongzhi Yang, Jianquan Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29643-4