Local adaptation and reproductive isolation: when does speciation start?

RK Butlin, R Faria - Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
The speciation process often takes a long time. The speciation continuum framework has
been useful to reconstruct the evolutionary processes that result in the formation of new …

[HTML][HTML] Gut bacteriomes and ecological niche divergence: an example of two cryptic gastropod species

E Gafarova, D Kuracji, K Sogomonyan, I Gorokhov… - Biology, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Nowadays, it is well known that the gut bacterial microbiome is crucially
important for the adaptation of multicellular organisms to their environment. In this study, we …

Mate choice contributes to the maintenance of shell color polymorphism in a marine snail via frequency-dependent sexual selection

D Estévez, E Kozminsky… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Natural color polymorphisms are widespread across animal species and usually have a
simple genetic basis. This makes them an ideal system to study the evolutionary …

Hybridization patterns between two marine snails, Littorina fabalis and L. obtusata

D Costa, G Sotelo, A Kaliontzopoulou… - Ecology and …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Characterizing the patterns of hybridization between closely related species is crucial to
understand the role of gene flow in speciation. In particular, systems comprising multiple …

Phylogeographic history of flat periwinkles, Littorina fabalis and L. obtusata

G Sotelo, M Duvetorp, D Costa, M Panova… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2020‏ - Springer
Abstract Background The flat periwinkles, Littorina fabalis and L. obtusata, are two sister
species widely distributed throughout the Northern Atlantic shores with high potential to …

Premating barriers in young sympatric snail species

AL Maltseva, MA Varfolomeeva, AA Lobov… - Scientific Reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
Sympatric coexistence of recently diverged species raises the question of barriers restricting
the gene flow between them. Reproductive isolation may be implemented at several levels …

Comparative mitogenomic analysis of three species of periwinkles: Littorina fabalis, L. obtusata and L. saxatilis

JP Marques, G Sotelo, T Larsson, K Johannesson… - Marine genomics, 2017‏ - Elsevier
The flat periwinkles, Littorina fabalis and L. obtusata, offer an interesting system for local
adaptation and ecological speciation studies. In order to provide genomic resources for …

Ecotypes and evolutionary significant units in endangered North African gazelles

TL Silva, CG Vale, R Godinho, A Fellous… - Biological Journal of …, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Conservation planning of threatened taxa relies upon accurate data on systematics,
ecological traits and suitable habitats. The genus Gazella includes taxa with distinct …

The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Littoraria ardouiniana (Heude, 1885) (Gastropoda, Littorininae): Sequence, Structure, and Phylogenetic Analyses

C Wang, S Chen, G Chen, P **ang, W Xu… - Russian Journal of …, 2024‏ - Springer
The genus Littoraria plays a significant role in the ecology of intertidal communities and is
one of the very few molluscan groups that are closely associated with mangroves. To …

Transcriptomic resources for evolutionary studies in flat periwinkles and related species

JP Marques, G Sotelo, J Galindo, P Chaube, D Costa… - Scientific data, 2020‏ - nature.com
The flat periwinkles, Littorina fabalis and L. obtusata, comprise two sister gastropod species
that have an enormous potential to elucidate the mechanisms involved in ecological …