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Speciation despite gene flow when developmental pathways evolve.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Nov 2002
Porter Adam H, Johnson Norman A
Abstract excerpt
Evolutionary biologists assume that species formation requires a drastic reduction in gene exchange between populations, but the rate sufficient to prevent speciation is unknown. To study speciation, we use a new class of population genetic models that incorporate simple developmental genetic rules, likely present in all organisms, to construct the phenotype. When we allow replicate populations to evolve in...
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