Stable species boundaries despite ten million years of hybridization in tropical eels

In the Indo-Pacific, multiple Anguilla eel species overlap in their spawning. Here, the authors sequence three Anguilla genomes and with genome-wide data of four more congeners, investigate contemporary hybridization, historical introgression, and the maintenance of species boundaries despite substa...

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Main Authors: Julia M. I. Barth, Chrysoula Gubili, Michael Matschiner, Ole K. Tørresen, Shun Watanabe, Bernd Egger, Yu-San Han, Eric Feunteun, Ruben Sommaruga, Robert Jehle, Robert Schabetsberger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15099-x