Speciation is a fundamental evolutionary process, the knowledge of which is crucial for
understanding the origins of biodiversity. Genomic approaches are an increasingly …

Phylogenetic species recognition and species concepts in fungi. Fungal Genetics and
Biology 31, 000–000. The operational species concept, ie, the one used to recognize …

Ecological 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 …

The ecological hypothesis of speciation is that reproductive isolation evolves ultimately as a
consequence of divergent natural selection on traits between environments. Ecological …

The past few years have seen the development of powerful statistical methods for detecting
adaptive molecular evolution. These methods compare synonymous and nonsynonymous …

Several authors have proposed that speciation frequently occurs when a population
becomes fixed for one or more chromosomal rearrangements that reduce fitness when they …

The unit of adaptation is usually thought to be a gene or set of interacting genes, rather than
the whole genome, and this may be true of species differentiation. Defining species on the …

The field of molecular evolution has experienced explosive growth in recent years due to the
rapid accumulation of genetic sequence data, continuous improvements to computer …

Gene expression is central to the genotype-phenotype relationship in all organisms, and it is
an important component of the genetic basis for evolutionary change in diverse aspects of …

For plants, the sensing of light in the environment is as important as vision is for animals.
Fluctuations in light can be crucial to competition and survival. One way plants sense light is …