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Hereditas(Beijing) ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (2): 128-143.doi: 10.16288/j.yczz.22-394

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Methods to detect and characterize introgression

Zexuan Liu(), Yiqiang Zhao()   

  1. College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2022-12-01 Revised:2023-01-04 Online:2023-02-20 Published:2023-01-26
  • Contact: Zhao Yiqiang E-mail:liuzexuan@cau.edu.cn;yiqiangz@cau.edu.cn

Abstract:

Introgression, also known as introgressive hybridization, refers to the process that genetic components from the gene pool of one population transfer to the other via constant backcrossing. Introgression is widespread in nature, which plays important roles in increasing genetic diversity and improving adaptability to the environment, and in turn, influences the evolutionary progress of animals, plants and humans. Being as an important evolutionary event, researchers pay great attention to the detection of introgression, the introgression direction, the introgression timing, the pattern of introgression and so on. With the rapid development of high-throughput sequencing technologies, methods to detect and characterize introgression based on genome-wide data are continuously developed. In this review, we summarize a series of methods for introgression detection, and introduce the design principles and applications of these methods. We also discuss the maintenance and selection of gene segments after introgression. This review provides a relatively comprehensive reference for the studies on introgression.

Key words: introgression, introgression detection, introgression direction, introgression timing, adaptive introgression