Dynamic molecular evolution of a supergene with suppressed recombination in white-throated sparrows.

First, we found that among the genes that were differentially expressed between morphs, more of these genes are located inside the rearranged region on ZAL2/2 m than expected by chance, pointing toward cis - (as opposed to trans -) regulatory differences underlying morph differences in expression ( X 2 tests showed highly significant effects for both brain regions in adults and nestlings of both sexes, with false discovery rate, FDR, correction to account for the multiple statistical comparisons performed using the Benjamini-Hochberg correction) ( Figure 4a ).

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