Silent crickets reveal the genomic footprint of recent adaptive trait loss
S. Pascoal, J. E. Risse, X. Zhang, M. Blaxter, T. Cezard, R. J. Challis, K. Gharbi, J. Hunt, S. Kumar, E. Langan, X. Liu, J. G. Rayner, M. G. Ritchie, B. L. Snoek, U. Trivedi, N. Bailey
The paper examines the genomic effects of recent sexual signal loss in crickets, finding pleiotropy, hitchhiking, and regulatory disruption associated with the trait loss.
bioRxiv · Dec 9, 2018 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology