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Admixture between old lineages facilitated contemporary ecological speciation in Lake Constance stickleback [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2019 Ecological speciation can proceed rapidly, but the origin of genetic variation facilitating it has remained elusive. Here, the authors show that secondary contact and introgression between deeply diverged lineages of stickleback fish facilitated rapid ...
David A. Marques +4 more
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Adaptive Divergence without Distinct Species Relationships Indicate Early Stage Ecological Speciation in Species of the Rhododendronpseudochrysanthum Complex Endemic to Taiwan [PDF]
Plants, 2022 The testing association of environmental variables with genetic and epigenetic variation could be crucial to deciphering the effects of environmental factors playing roles as selective drivers in ecological speciation.
Jia-Jia Cao +4 more
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Reevaluating claims of ecological speciation in Halichoeres bivittatus [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Allopatry has traditionally been viewed as the primary driver of speciation in marine taxa, but the geography of the marine environment and the larval dispersal capabilities of many marine organisms render this view somewhat questionable.
Dan L. Warren +5 more
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Continuation of the genetic divergence of ecological speciation by spatial environmental heterogeneity in island endemic plants [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 Divergent selection plays a critical role not only as a speciation driver but also in maintaining post-speciation divergence. In the absence of direct evidence, ancestral interspecific gene flow between incipient species can reflect ancient selective ...
Bing-Hong Huang +3 more
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Drosophila yakuba mayottensis, a new model for the study of incipient ecological speciation [PDF]
Fly, 2017 A full understanding of how ecological factors drive the fixation of genetic changes during speciation is obscured by the lack of appropriate models with clear natural history and powerful genetic toolkits.
Amir Yassin
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Allopatric speciation is more prevalent than parapatric ecological divergence in a recent high-Andean diversification (Linochilus: Asteraceae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Elucidating how species accumulate in diversity hotspots is an ongoing debate in evolutionary biology. The páramo, in the Northern Andes, has remarkably high indices of plant diversity, endemicity, and diversification rates.
Oscar M. Vargas +2 more
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Ecology Letters, 2005 AbstractEcological processes are central to the formation of new species when barriers to gene flow (reproductive isolation) evolve between populations as a result of ecologically‐based divergent selection. Although laboratory and field studies provide evidence that ‘ecological speciation’ can occur, our understanding of the details of the process is ...
Rundle, HD, Nosil, P
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Avian Research, 2021 Background Understanding how species diversify is a long-standing question in biology. The allopatric speciation model is a classic hypothesis to explain the speciation process. This model supposes that there is no gene flow during the divergence process
Pengcheng Wang +8 more
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The Sensory Ecology of Speciation
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2023 In this work, we explore the potential influence of sensory ecology on speciation, including but not limited to the concept of sensory drive, which concerns the coevolution of signals and sensory systems with the local environment. The sensory environment can influence individual fitness in a variety of ways, thereby affecting the evolution of both pre-
Denise Dalbosco Dell'Aglio +4 more
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Toxins, 2021 Ecologically divergent selection can lead to the evolution of reproductive isolation through the process of ecological speciation, but the balance of responsible evolutionary forces is often obscured by an inadequate assessment of demographic history and
Mark J. Margres +6 more
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