Flycatchers' genomes explain how 1 species became 2
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 18:30
in Biology & Nature
The European pied flycatcher, and later its close relative the collared flycatcher, have long been an important research organism for scientists at many universities. Just how new species are established is still one of the most central questions in biology. In an article in the leading scientific journal Nature, researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden describe how they mapped the genomes of the European pied flycatcher and the collared flycatcher and found that it is disparate chromosome structures rather than separate adaptations in individual genes that underlies the separation of the species.