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Fungal evolution: On the origin of yeast species

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High-throughput population genomics reveals how the evolution of chromosome arrangement and sequence divergence followed by secondary contact upon glacier retreat initiates homoploid hybrid speciation in natural populations of the budding yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus.

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Figure 1: Genomics of speciation.

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  1. Rike B. Stelkens and Duncan Greig are at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August-Thienemann Straß 2, 24306 Plön, Germany.,

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  2. Department of Genetics, Duncan Greig is also at The Galton Laboratory, Evolution, and Environment, University College, London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.,

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Stelkens, R., Greig, D. Fungal evolution: On the origin of yeast species. Nat Microbiol 1, 15017 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2015.17

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