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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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The speed of ecological speciation [PDF]
Functional Ecology, 2007 SummaryAdaptation can occur on ecological time‐scales (contemporary evolution) and adaptive divergence can cause reproductive isolation (ecological speciation). From the intersection of these two premises follows the prediction that reproductive isolation can evolve on ecological time‐scales. We explore this possibility in theory and in nature. Finding
Andrew P, Hendry +2 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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Genetics and ecological speciation [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009 Species originate frequently by natural selection. A general mechanism by which this occurs is ecological speciation, defined as the evolution of reproductive isolation between populations as a result of ecologically-based divergent natural selection.
Dolph, Schluter, Gina L, Conte
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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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Biology, 2022 Soil bacteria respond rapidly to changes in new environmental conditions. For adaptation to the new environment, they could mutate their genome, which impacts the alternation of the functional and regulatory landscape.
Sumit Mukherjee +9 more
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Functional diversification within a predatory species flock. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Ecological speciation is well-known from adaptive radiations in cichlid fishes inhabiting lentic ecosystems throughout the African rift valley and Central America.
Edward D Burress +5 more
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Seven Questions on the Chemical Ecology and Neurogenetics of Resource-Mediated Speciation
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Adaptation to different environments can result in reproductive isolation between populations and the formation of new species. Food resources are among the most important environmental factors shaping local adaptation.
Xiaocui Wang +4 more
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Genomics of Rapid Incipient Speciation in Sympatric Threespine Stickleback. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2016 Ecological speciation is the process by which reproductively isolated populations emerge as a consequence of divergent natural or ecologically-mediated sexual selection.
David A Marques +6 more
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Little ecological divergence associated with speciation in two African rain forest tree genera
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 Background The tropical rain forests (TRF) of Africa are the second largest block of this biome after the Amazon and exhibit high levels of plant endemism and diversity. Two main hypotheses have been advanced to explain speciation processes that have led
Wieringa Jan J +3 more
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