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Founder effects persist despite adaptive differentiation: a field experiment with lizards.

Science (New York, N.Y.) - 2 Mar 2012

Kolbe Jason J, Leal Manuel, Schoener Thomas W, Spiller David A, Losos Jonathan B

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The extent to which random processes such as founder events contribute to evolutionary divergence is a long-standing controversy in evolutionary biology. To determine the respective contributions of founder effects and natural selection, we conducted an experiment in which brown anole (Anolis sagrei) lizard populations were established on seven small islands in the Bahamas, from male-female pairs randomly drawn...

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PMID: 22300849
DOI: 10.1126/science.1209566

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