The Effects on Parapatric Divergence of Linkage between Preference and Trait Loci versus Pleiotropy

• Published in: Genes Vol. 9; no. 4; p. 217
• Main Authors: Servedio, Maria R, Bürger, Reinhard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 17.04.2018; MDPI
• Subjects: assortative mating; Chromosomes; inversion; linkage; mate choice; phenotype matching; Phenotypes; Pleiotropy; Population genetics; preference; Preferences; Recombination; Reproductive isolation; speciation; inversion; assortative mating; phenotype matching; preference; linkage; pleiotropy; mate choice; speciation

Attempts to uncover the genetic basis of female mating preferences and male signals involved in reproductive isolation have discovered intriguing cases in which loci contributing to these traits co-localize in their chromosomal positions. Such discoveries raise the question of whether alleles at cer...