Science (New York, N.Y.)AnimalsGenetic SpeciationBiological MimicryBirdsPigmentation
Genomic architecture of egg mimicry and its consequences for speciation in parasitic cuckoos.
Justin Merondun, Frode Fossøy, Swetlana Meshcheryagina, Phil Atkinson, Gennadiy Bachurin, Victor Bulyuk, Viktar Fenchuk, Mikhail Golovatin, Chris Hewson, Marcel Honza, Mikhail Markovets, Csaba Moskát, Gregory L Owens, Petr Procházka, Yaroslav Red'kin
Published: 202510.1126/science.adt9355
Abstract
Host-parasite arms races facilitate rapid evolution and can fuel speciation. Cuculus cuckoos are deceptive egg mimics that exhibit a broad diversity of counterfeit egg phenotypes, representing host-adapted subpopulations (gentes). Genome analysis of…
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