There’s a thousand genes for that! (Ep 98)
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The Importance of Divergence in Genome Sequences
Large portions of those genomes of the two drosophila species are well mixed that means that there's sort of ongoing hybridization between them and those sections of the genome act almost as if it's just one giant species. When you trace back the genealogies over most of the genome you're going back hundreds of thousands of generations and over that timescale they're pretty much well mixed so that you wouldn't be able to see the proper species phylogeny if you looked at most of the genesyou looked at their answers yeah gotcha but I think I got a different perspective through working on hybrid zones in more or less spatially continuous populations in power patric and realizing that divergence
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