Adaptive radiation provides the ideal context for identifying and testing the processes that
drive evolutionary diversification. However, different adaptive radiations show a variety of …

Background The processes through which populations originate and diversify ecologically in
the initial stages of adaptive radiation are little understood because we lack information on …

Particularly intriguing examples of adaptive radiation are those in which lineages show
parallel or convergent evolution, suggesting utilization of similar genetic or developmental …

Discontinuous variation within individuals is increasingly recognized as playing a role in
diversification and ecological speciation. This study is part of an effort to investigate the …

Insular adaptive radiations in which repeated bouts of diversification lead to phenotypically
similar sets of taxa serve to highlight predictability in the evolutionary process [1]. However …

Adaptive radiation involves the diversification of species each adapted to exploit different
ecological roles. I have studied a radiation of spiders in the genus Tetragnatha …

The Hawaiian Islands are renowned for some of the most spectacular species radiations in
the world. Most of these radiations have been attributed to single colonization events …

The biota of the Hawaiian archipelago offers an ideal system with which to study the
dynamics behind the evolutionary process, both because the islands harbour many species …

Adaptive radiation is characterized by the rapid diversification of a lineage into an array of
morphologically divergent species that have adapted to exploit different environments or …

The role of adaptive shifts in species formation has been the subject of considerable
controversy for many years. Here we examine the phylogeny of a large radiation of …