Article
Possible incipient sympatric ecological speciation in blind mole rats (Spalax).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 12 Feb 2013
Hadid Yarin, Tzur Shay, Pavlícek Tomáš, Šumbera Radim, Šklíba Jan, Lövy Matěj, Fragman-Sapir Ori, Beiles Avigdor, Arieli Ran, Raz Shmuel, Nevo Eviatar
Abstract excerpt
Sympatric speciation has been controversial since it was first proposed as a mode of speciation. Subterranean blind mole rats (Spalacidae) are considered to speciate allopatrically or peripatrically. Here, we report a possible incipient sympatric adaptive ecological speciation in Spalax galili (2n = 52). The study microsite (0.04 km(2)) is sharply subdivided geologically, edaphically, and ecologically into...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Computational Biology
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Ecosystem
- Genetic Speciation
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population