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Sympatric speciation revealed by genome-wide divergence in the blind mole rat Spalax.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 22 Sept 2015
Li Kexin, Hong Wei, Jiao Hengwu, Wang Guo-Dong, Rodriguez Karl A, Buffenstein Rochelle, Zhao Yang, Nevo Eviatar, Zhao Huabin
Abstract excerpt
Sympatric speciation (SS), i.e., speciation within a freely breeding population or in contiguous populations, was first proposed by Darwin [Darwin C (1859) On the Origins of Species by Means of Natural Selection] and is still controversial despite theoretical support [Gavrilets S (2004) Fitness Landscapes and the Origin of Species (MPB-41)] and mounting empirical evidence. Speciation of subterranean mammals...
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