Evidence for ecological speciation and its alternative.

doi:10.1126/science.1160006

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Evidence for ecological speciation and its alternative.

Science (New York, N.Y.) - 6 Feb 2009

Schluter Dolph

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Natural selection commonly drives the origin of species, as Darwin initially claimed. Mechanisms of speciation by selection fall into two broad categories: ecological and mutation-order. Under ecological speciation, divergence is driven by divergent natural selection between environments, whereas under mutation-order speciation, divergence occurs when different mutations arise and are fixed in separate...

Topics

Adaptation, Biological
Animals
Biological Evolution
Ecosystem
Genes
Genetic Speciation
Genetic Variation
Models, Biological
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Phenotype
Plants
Quantitative Trait Loci
Reproduction
Selection, Genetic

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PMID: 19197053
DOI: 10.1126/science.1160006

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