Structural genomic changes underlie alternative reproductive strategies in the ruff (Philomachus pugnax)

• Published in: Nature genetics Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 84 - 88
• Main Authors: Lamichhaney, Sangeet, Fan, Guangyi, Widemo, Fredrik, Gunnarsson, Ulrika, Thalmann, Doreen Schwochow, Hoeppner, Marc P, Kerje, Susanne, Gustafson, Ulla, Shi, Chengcheng, Zhang, He, Chen, Wenbin, Liang, Xinming, Huang, Leihuan, Wang, Jiahao, Liang, Enjing, Wu, Qiong, Lee, Simon Ming-Yuen, Xu, Xun, Höglund, Jacob, Liu, Xin, Andersson, Leif
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Nature Publishing Group US 01.01.2016; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 45; 45/22; 45/23; 45/43; 45/77; 631/208/1515; 631/208/457; 631/601/1737; Agriculture; Amino Acid Sequence; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Animals; Archives & records; Behavior; Biological Evolution; Biomedicine; Birds - genetics; Birds - physiology; Body size; Breeding of animals; Cancer Research; Chromosomes; Dehydrogenases; DNA sequencing; Female; Females; Gene Function; Genetics, Population; Genome; Genomes; Genomics; Human Genetics; Laboratories; letter; Life Sciences; Male; Males; Molecular Sequence Data; Mutation; Philomachus pugnax; Phylogeny; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Recombination, Genetic; Reproduction - genetics; Sexual Behavior, Animal - physiology; Dna-sequencing data; Phenotypes; Association; Zonotrichia-albicollis; Identification; Social-behavior; Polymorphism; Mimicry; Complex

Leif Andersson and colleagues report the genome sequence of the ruff, a bird species with three male morphs with different reproductive strategies. Satellite and faeder morphs differ from the common independent morph by a 4.5-Mb inversion that occurred approximately 3.8 million years ago, and multip...