Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) illuminate the population genomics of a recent, high-latitude avian speciation event

• Main Authors: Winker, Kevin, Glenn, Travis C, Faircloth, Brant C
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: PeerJ 2018
• Subjects: Kya; Plectrophenax nivalis
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27035; https://peerj.com/preprints/27035.pdf; https://peerj.com/preprints/27035.xml; https://peerj.com/preprints/27035.html

Using a large, consistent set of loci shared by descent (orthologous) to study relationships among taxa would revolutionize among-lineage comparisons of divergence and speciation processes. Ultraconserved elements (UCEs), highly conserved regions of the genome, offer such genomic markers. The utilit...