Article
Genomic signatures of geographic isolation and natural selection in coral reef fishes.
Molecular ecology - 1 Apr 2015
Gaither Michelle R, Bernal Moisés A, Coleman Richard R, Bowen Brian W, Jones Shelley A, Simison W Brian, Rocha Luiz A
Abstract excerpt
The drivers of speciation remain among the most controversial topics in evolutionary biology. Initially, Darwin emphasized natural selection as a primary mechanism of speciation, but the architects of the modern synthesis largely abandoned that view in favour of divergence by geographic isolation. The balance between selection and isolation is still at the forefront of the evolutionary debate, especially for the...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Coral Reefs
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genetics, Population
- Haplotypes
- Hawaii
- Pacific Islands
- Perciformes
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Selection, Genetic