Diverse pathways to speciation revealed by marine snails

K Johannesson, R Faria, A Le Moan, M Rafajlović… - Trends in Genetics, 2024 - cell.com
Speciation is a key evolutionary process that is not yet fully understood. Combining
population genomic and ecological data from multiple diverging pairs of marine snails …

Quantitative analyses of coupling in hybrid zones

TJ Firneno, G Semenov… - Cold Spring …, 2023 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
In hybrid zones, whether barrier loci experience selection mostly independently or as a unit
depends on the ratio of selection to recombination as captured by the coupling coefficient …

Genomic evidence for homoploid hybrid speciation in a marine mammal apex predator

F Lopes, LR Oliveira, Y Beux, A Kessler… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Hybridization is widespread and constitutes an important source of genetic variability and
evolution. In animals, its role in generating novel and independent lineages (hybrid …

Toward the integration of speciation research

S Stankowski, AD Cutter, I Satokangas… - … Journal of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Speciation research—the scientific field focused on understanding the origin and diversity of
species—has a long and complex history. While relevant to one another, the specific goals …

Divergent dynamics of sexual and habitat isolation at the transition between stick insect populations and species

P Nosil, Z Gompert, DJ Funk - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Speciation is often viewed as a continuum along which populations diverge until they
become reproductively-isolated species. However, such divergence may be heterogeneous …

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 …

Museum genomics approach to study the taxonomy and evolution of Woolly-necked storks using historic specimens

P Ghimire, C Palacios, J Trimble… - G3: Genes, Genomes …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The accessibility of genomic tools in evolutionary biology has allowed for a thorough
exploration of various evolutionary processes associated with adaptation and speciation …

Kee** the door ajar: when is a little gene flow a good thing?

R Butlin - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Speciation is not an event but a process, and one that may take a very long time. It can be
helpful to think about a “speciation continuum,” either in one dimension (reproductive …

Rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared to animals

F Monnet, Z Postel, P Touzet, C Fraïsse, Y Van de Peer… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Speciation, the process through which new reproductively isolated species emerge from
ancestral populations, occurs due to the gradual accumulation of barriers to gene flow within …

Speciation and repeated origins of hypertrophied lips in parallel adaptive radiations of cyprinid fish from East Africa

B Levin, A Komarova, E Simonov, A Tiunov… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of convergent phenotypes is one of the most interesting phenomena of
repeated adaptive radiations. Here, we examined the repeated patterns of thick‐lipped or …