Journal article
Assessing Genomic Admixture between Cryptic Plutella Moth Species following Secondary Contact
Christopher M Ward, Simon W Baxter
GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2018
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evy224
Abstract
Cryptic species are genetically distinct taxa without obvious variation in morphology and are occasionally discovered using molecular or sequence data sets of populations previously thought to be a single species. The world-wide Brassica pest, Plutella xylostella (diamondback moth), has been a problematic insect in Australia since 1882, yet a morphologically cryptic species with apparent endemism (P. australiana) was only recognized in 2013. Plutella xylostella and P. australiana are able to hybridize under laboratory conditions, and it was unknown whether introgression of adaptive traits could occur in the field to improve fitness and potentially increase pressure on agriculture. Phylogenet..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was funded by the Australian Research Council (grant numbers DP120100047, FT140101303) and Grains Research and Development Corporation (UOA1711-004RSX). C.M.W. is supported by The Commonwealth Hill Trust and Grains Research and Development Corporation. Supercomputing resources were provided by the Phoenix HPC service at the University of Adelaide. We thank Kym Perry (University of Adelaide, Australia), Kevin Powis (South Australian Research and Development Institute, Australia), and Ron Mau (College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii) for sample collection along with Paul Hebert (Centre for Biodiversity Genomics) and Jean-Francois Landry (Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes) for the images of P. australiana and P. xylostella, respectively. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their comments on a previous version of this manuscript.