Acknowledgments
C.L.-F. is supported by a PGC2018-0955931-B-100 grant (MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE) of Spain; T.M.-B. is supported by funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 864203), BFU2017-86471-P (MINECO/FEDER, UE), “Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu”, funded by the AEI (CEX2018-000792-M), Howard Hughes International Early Career, Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca and CERCA Programme del Departament d’Economia i Coneixement de la Generalitat de Catalunya (GRC 2017-SGR-880); R.V. is supported by grant PID2019-107078GB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033, and by GRC 2017-SGR-991 (Generalitat de Catalunya). We are grateful to the SCIENCE Faculty at University of Copenhagen for free access to Computerome 2.0. The genetic data generated is publicly available; the accession numbers for the Xerces Blue and Silvery Blue genomes reported in this study are in the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA): PRJEB47122. This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Wellcome Trust Grants 206194 and 218328 (MU, MB). For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.
Competing Interest Statement: The authors declare no competing interest.
Author Contributions: C.L.-F., R.V., R.R. and P.R. conceived the project. R.R. studied and sampled the specimens. L.L. and E.L. performed experimental work. T.d-D., C.F., J.S., M.U.-S., C.W. and P.R. undertook different computational analyses. C.L.-F., T.M.-B., A.N. and M.B. coordinated different computational teams. J.S. worked in visualization. C.L.-F. and R.R. wrote the manuscript with input from all coauthors.