The metaphor of 'genomic islands of speciation'was first used to describe heterogeneous
differentiation among loci between the genomes of closely related species. The biological …

Papers on sexual selection often highlight the incredible diversity of sexually selected traits
across animals. Yet, few studies have tried to explain why this diversity evolved. Animals use …

We apply a comparative framework to test for concerted demographic changes in response
to climate shifts in the neotropical lowland forests, learning from the past to inform …

Islands are thought to facilitate adaptive radiation by providing release from competition and
predation. Anole lizards are considered a classic example of this phenomenon: different …

Shifts in the geographic distribution of habitats over time can promote dispersal and
vicariance, thereby influencing large‐scale biogeographic patterns and ecological …

Amphibians and reptiles as a group are often secretive, reach their greatest diversity often in
remote tropical regions, and contain some of the most endangered groups of organisms on …

Transposable elements (TEs) are DNA sequences that can insert elsewhere in the genome
and modify genome structure and gene regulation. The role of TEs in evolution is …

In this contribution, the aspects of reptile and amphibian speciation that emerged from
research performed over the past decade are reviewed. First, this study assesses how …

Environmental gradients constrain physiological performance and thus species' ranges,
suggesting that species occurrence in diverse environments may be associated with local …

Understanding how natural selection acts on the genome and contributes to the process of
speciation is a primary aim of the study of evolution. Here we used natural variation in two …