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ArticleGenome biology and evolution2025

Speciation Genomics in the Tiger Whiptail Lizards (Aspidoscelis tigris Complex).

Anthony J Barley, David V Ho, Peter Baumann, Ian J Wang, H Bradley Shaffer, Robert N Fisher, Levi N Gray, Trevor J Krabbenhoft, Robert E Espinoza, Merly Escalona and 6 more

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Article in Genome biology and evolution, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Anthony J BarleySchool of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Arizona State University, Glendale, AZ 85306, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1675-6577
David V HoDepartment of Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4709-269X
Peter BaumannDepartment of Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4892-1485
Ian J WangDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2554-9414
H Bradley ShafferDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5795-9242
Robert N FisherU.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, San Diego, CA 92101, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2956-3240
Levi N GraySchool of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Arizona State University, Glendale, AZ 85306, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4428-1057
Trevor J KrabbenhoftDepartment of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7680-5169
Robert E EspinozaDepartment of Biology, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA 91330-8303, USA.
Merly EscalonaDepartment of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0213-4777
Erin ToffelmierDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6028-8497
Ruta SahasrabudheDNA Technologies and Expression Analysis Core Laboratory, Genome Center, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3285-6845
Oanh NguyenDNA Technologies and Expression Analysis Core Laboratory, Genome Center, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1492-2084
Colin W FairbairnDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
Eric BerautDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4443-6282
Robert C ThomsonSchool of Life Sciences, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8006-1484

Funding

Pacific Biosciences PacBio RS Single Molecule Real Time SequencerS10OD018174 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI ROKHSAR, DANIEL SOLEYMAN · 2014 to 2014
$600k
Acquisition of Covaris E220 and Sciclone G3 systems for high throughput sequencinS10OD010786 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI COMAI, LUCA · 2012 to 2012
$311k
NIH HHS S10 OD010786NIH HHS S10 OD018174
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The transition from small genetic to genome-scale datasets for studying biodiversity has revealed that genetic exchange through introgressive hybridization is a widespread phenomenon in nature. Despite this, a lack of high-quality reference genomes for most non-model species limits our understanding of the impact of this process for many taxonomic groups. This restricts the range of insights that genomic tools can provide for conservation biologists, who often hope to employ genomic datasets to accurately identify historically isolated lineages to protect and to predict their evolutionary fate in the face of environmental change. Tiger whiptail lizards (Aspidoscelis tigris complex) are an abundant and important ecological component of ecosystems across the southwestern United States. In this study, we assembled and annotated a chromosome-level reference genome for A. t. stejnegeri from coastal California. We then used this reference genome to reconstruct patterns of speciation and admixture within the larger species complex, finding evidence that gene flow is widespread both geographically and across the genome.

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Genetic SpeciationGenomeLizardsAnimalsCaliforniaGene FlowGenomicsCalifornia Conservation Genomics ProjectCCGPintrogressionphylogenyreference genome

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