Finding these independent further gen. admixed pops (here 🔴) leads us to highlight the eco-evo consequences of extensive mosaic hybrid zones, within which 🔴 face an array of ecological and intrinsic selection pressures (👀 literature on +/- effects of 🐜 hybridisation). 3/5
Ina Satokangas
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Postdoctoral Researcher - Evolutionary genomics, Speciation & Hybridization. Wood ants. Mother of two. University of Helsinki, BioEnvFaculty, SpecIAnt.
In #sympatry, as in Finland, the 🐜🐜🐜 #hybridise extensively and form a mosaic #hybrid #zone: #admixed populations (♦️) alternate in space with non-admixed pops (🟢&🟠) with different climatic adaptations. The ♦️ occupy warmer nest sites than their cold-adapted parent (🟢)! 2/5
Can semipermeable species boundaries facilitate persistence in a changing #climate? Our new work on 5 wood #ant 🐜 species seems to support this. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16992 We show that... 1/5 (a thread 🧵)