Partial reuse of circadian clock genes along parallel clines of diapause in two moth species

Abstract

Elucidating the genetic mechanism of adaptive response to new environmental challenges is one of the fundamental goals in modern evolutionary biology Sutherland et al., 2013;Williams et al., 2017). Phenotypic and genetic changes along a geographic transect (cline) are thought to be responses to spatially varying selection. When such changes repeatedly occur, for example along another cline, it provides especially strong evidence that those reused targets of selection are at the core of the