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A comparative analysis of the mechanisms underlying speciation on Lord Howe Island.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Apr 2013
Papadopulos A S T, Price Z, Devaux C, Hipperson H, Smadja C M, Hutton I, Baker W J, Butlin R K, Savolainen V
Abstract excerpt
On Lord Howe Island, speciation is thought to have taken place in situ in a diverse array of distantly related plant taxa (Metrosideros, Howea and Coprosma; Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 108, 2011, 13188). We now investigate whether the speciation processes were driven by divergent natural selection in each genus by examining the extent of ecological and genetic divergence. We present new and extensive, ecological...
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