When confronted with an adaptive challenge, such as extreme temperature, closely related species frequently evolve similar phenotypes using the same genes. Although such repeated evolution is thought to be less likely in highly polygenic traits and distantly related species, this has not been tested at the genome scale.
Further reading - Yeaman S. et al. Science. 2016 Sep 23;353(6306):1431-1433.
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