Article
Divergent adaptation promotes reproductive isolation among experimental populations of the filamentous fungus Neurospora.
BMC evolutionary biology - 31 Jan 2008
Dettman Jeremy R, Anderson James B, Kohn Linda M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: An open, focal issue in evolutionary biology is how reproductive isolation and speciation are initiated; elucidation of mechanisms with empirical evidence has lagged behind theory. Under ecological speciation, reproductive isolation between populations is predicted to evolve incidentally as a by-product of adaptation to divergent environments. The increased genetic diversity associated with...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Neurospora
- Phenotype
- Population Growth