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Ecological character displacement in the face of gene flow: evidence from two species of nightingales.
BMC evolutionary biology - 24 May 2011
Reifová Radka, Reif Jiří, Antczak Marcin, Nachman Michael W
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BACKGROUND: Ecological character displacement is a process of phenotypic differentiation of sympatric populations caused by interspecific competition. Such differentiation could facilitate speciation by enhancing reproductive isolation between incipient species, although empirical evidence for it at early stages of divergence when gene flow still occurs between the species is relatively scarce. Here we studied...
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