Digest: How the snowshoe hare got its brown coat: Convergent evolution or gene flow?*

Jente Ottenburghs*

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journalArticleAcademicpeer-review

Abstract

The winter-brown phenotype of snowshoe hares in the Pacific Northwest was acquired through hybridization with black-tailed jackrabbits. Some snowshoe hares in more northern boreal populations exhibit the same phenotype, but how did they acquire it? Jones and colleagues show that the phenotype in the boreal populations is the outcome of convergent evolution, highlighting the importance of understanding the genetic basis of a trait in reconstructing its evolution.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2174-2175
JournalEvolution
Volume74
Issue number9
Early online date19 Jul 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2020

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Digest: How the snowshoe hare got its brown coat: Convergent evolution or gene flow?*'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this