Understanding the genetic mechanisms of speciation and basis of species differences is
among the most important challenges in evolutionary biology. Two questions of particular …

Plant species may remain morphologically distinct despite gene exchange with congeners,
yet little is known about the genomewide pattern of introgression among species. Here we …

New species may arise via hybridization and without a change in ploidy. This process,
termed homoploid hybrid speciation, is theoretically difficult because it requires the …

Abstract Knowledge of the nature and extent of karyotypic differences between species
provides insight into the evolutionary history of the genomes in question and, in the case of …

Both models and case studies suggest that chromosomal inversions can facilitate adaptation
and speciation in the presence of gene flow by suppressing recombination between locally …

Genomic studies of speciation often report the presence of highly differentiated genomic
regions interspersed within a milieu of weakly diverged loci. The formation of these …

Hybrid or “recombinational” speciation refers to the origin of a new homoploid species via
hybridization between chromosomally or genetically divergent parental species. Theory …

Mapping the chromosomal rearrangements between species can inform our understanding
of genome evolution, reproductive isolation, and speciation. Here, we present a novel …

Genetic analyses of reproductive barriers represent one of the few methods by which
theories of speciation can be tested. However, genetic study is often restricted to model …

Interest in the level and organization of nucleotide diversity in domesticated plant lineages
has recently been motivated by the potential for using association-based mapping …