The effects of competition and predation on diversification in a model adaptive radiation.

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Much of life's diversity is thought to have arisen through successive rounds of adaptive radiation-the rapid diversification of a lineage into a range of ecologically and phenotypically distinct species. Both resource competition and predation have been suggested as mechanisms driving this process, although the former is better studied than the latter. Here we show experimentally how predation by a protist,...

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