Coupling of barriers to gene exchange: causes and consequences

EB Dopman, KL Shaw, MR Servedio… - Cold Spring …, 2024‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Coupling has emerged as a concept to describe the transition from differentiated
populations to newly evolved species through the strengthening of reproductive isolation …

Coupling of twelve putative chromosomal inversions maintains a strong barrier to gene flow between snail ecotypes

A Le Moan, S Stankowski, M Rafajlović… - Evolution …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Chromosomal rearrangements can lead to the coupling of reproductive barriers, but whether
and how they contribute to the completion of speciation remains unclear. Marine snails of …

Speciation

CL Peichel, DI Bolnick… - Cold Spring …, 2024‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
What drives the emergence of new species has fascinated biologists since Darwin.
Reproductive barriers to gene flow are a key step in the formation of species, and recent …

Sexual selection promotes reproductive isolation in barn swallows

DR Schield, JK Carter, ESC Scordato, II Levin… - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Despite the well-known effects of sexual selection on phenotypes, links between this
evolutionary process and reproductive isolation, genomic divergence, and speciation have …

Suture zones, speciation, and evolution

DR Wait, JV Peñalba - Evolution, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
In the more than 50 years since the initial conceptualization of the suture zone, little work
has been done to take full advantage of the comparative capability of these geographic …

A Next Generation of Hierarchical Bayesian Analyses of Hybrid Zones Enables Model‐Based Quantification of Variation in Introgression in R

Z Gompert, DA DeRaad, CA Buerkle - Ecology and Evolution, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Hybrid zones, where genetically distinct groups of organisms meet and interbreed, offer
valuable insights into the nature of species and speciation. Here, we present a new R …

A next generation of hierarchical Bayesian analyses of hybrid zones enables direct quantification of variation in introgression in R

Z Gompert, DA DeRaad, C Alex Buerkle - bioRxiv, 2024‏ - biorxiv.org
Hybrid zones, where genetically distinct groups of organisms meet and interbreed, offer
valuable insights into the nature of species and speciation. Here, we present a new R …

Computer simulation and mathematical modeling of the interactions between ecological and sexual selection to reveal the mechanism of sympatric speciation

J Lin, J Lin, N Wassall - bioRxiv, 2023‏ - biorxiv.org
In modern evolutionary theory, the mechanism of sympatric speciation is still an unsolved
mystery. Ecological niche specialization and the subsequent premating reproductive …