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+[[!meta title="Crossing the species barrier: genomic hotspots of introgression between two highly divergent Ciona intestinalis species."]]
+[[!tag Ciona speciation]]
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+Mol Biol Evol. 2013 Jul;30(7):1574-87. doi:10.1093/molbev/mst066
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+Roux C, Tsagkogeorga G, Bierne N, Galtier N.
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+Crossing the species barrier: genomic hotspots of introgression between two highly divergent Ciona intestinalis species.
+
+[[!pmid 23564941 desc="Speciation during the Pliocene (≈ 3.8 Ma) and then recent introgression 15,000 years ago."]]
intragenic recombination in _C. robusta_ and _C. intestinalis_, buy supported
monophyly of these two species. Both data also supported paraphyly of
_C. intestinalis_ with respcet to _C. roulei_ ([[Nydam and Harrison,
-2010|biblio/20403444]]).
+2010|biblio/20403444]]). Speciation is estimated to have happened during the
+Pliocene (≈ 3.8 Ma); a recent introgression then happened 15,000 years ago
+([[Roux and coll., 2013|biblio/23564941]]).
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