BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2007 Background The sensory drive hypothesis predicts that divergent sensory adaptation in different habitats may lead to premating isolation upon secondary contact of populations.
Seehausen Ole +3 more
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Sexual imprinting leads to speciation in locally adapted populations
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Sexual imprinting is widespread in birds and other species but its existence requires explanation. Our results suggest that sexual imprinting leads to speciation in locally‐adapted populations if a neutral mating cue—e.g., novel plumage coloration—arises
Richard M. Sibly, Robert N. Curnow
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Trajectory and genomic determinants of fungal-pathogen speciation and host adaptation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014 Xiao Hu, Guohua Xiao, Yanfang Shang
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Little ecological divergence associated with speciation in two African rain forest tree genera [PDF]
, 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.
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Sympatric speciation: when is it possible in bacteria?
PLoS ONE, 2013 According to theory, sympatric speciation in sexual eukaryotes is favored when relatively few loci in the genome are sufficient for reproductive isolation and adaptation to different niches. Here we show a similar result for clonally reproducing bacteria,
Jonathan Friedman +2 more
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Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves [PDF]
, 2018 Individual processes shaping geographical patterns of biodiversity are increasingly understood, but their complex interactions on broad spatial and temporal scales remain beyond the reach of analytical models and traditional experiments.
Cassemiro, Fernanda A. S. +9 more
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The origin of diversity in insects: Speciation, adaptation and the Earth dynamics
Comptes rendus. Biologies, 2019 The diversity of insects is often explained as a product of major radiations, triggered by remarkable adaptations that allowed them to exploit different environments and to accompany the rise of flowering plants .
P. Grandcolas
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The genetic architecture underlying the evolution of a rare piscivorous life history form in brown trout after secondary contact and strong introgression [PDF]
, 2018 Identifying the genetic basis underlying phenotypic divergence and reproductive isolation is a longstanding problem in evolutionary biology. Genetic signals of adaptation and reproductive isolation are often confounded by a wide range of factors, such as
Adams, Colin E. +4 more
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Bean Genome Diversity Reveals the Genomic Consequences of Speciation, Adaptation, and Domestication
Genetic Diversity in Plant Species - Characterization and Conservation, 2018 Here we review whether genomic islands of speciation are repeatedly more prone to harbor within-species differentiation due to genomic features, such as suppressed recombination, smaller effective population size, and increased drift, across repeated ...
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Inversions maintain differences between migratory phenotypes of a songbird
Nature Communications, 2023 Rearrangements in the genome are important for local adaptation and speciation but are often difficult to identify reliably. Here the authors show that rearrangements underlie large chromosome regions that separate differentially migratory willow ...
Max Lundberg +3 more
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