Making sense of genomic islands of differentiation in light of speciation

JBW Wolf, H Ellegren - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
As populations diverge, genetic differences accumulate across the genome. Spurred by
rapid developments in sequencing technology, genome-wide population surveys of natural …

Genomics and the origin of species

O Seehausen, RK Butlin, I Keller, CE Wagner… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Speciation is a fundamental evolutionary process, the knowledge of which is crucial for
understanding the origins of biodiversity. Genomic approaches are an increasingly …

Genomic divergence during speciation: causes and consequences

P Nosil, JL Feder - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Speciation is a fundamental process responsible for the diversity of life. Progress has been
made in detecting individual 'speciation genes' that cause reproductive isolation. In contrast …

The genomics of speciation-with-gene-flow

JL Feder, SP Egan, P Nosil - Trends in genetics, 2012 - cell.com
The emerging field of speciation genomics is advancing our understanding of the evolution
of reproductive isolation from the individual gene to a whole-genome perspective. In this …

Interpreting the genomic landscape of speciation: a road map for finding barriers to gene flow

M Ravinet, R Faria, RK Butlin, J Galindo… - Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Speciation, the evolution of reproductive isolation among populations, is continuous,
complex, and involves multiple, interacting barriers. Until it is complete, the effects of this …

Genes and speciation

CI Wu, CT Ting - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2004 - nature.com
It is only in the past five years that studies of speciation have truly entered the molecular era.
Recent molecular analyses of a handful of genes that are involved in maintaining …

The genes underlying the process of speciation

P Nosil, D Schluter - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2011 - cell.com
The long-standing goal of finding genes causing reproductive isolation is being achieved.
To better link the genetics with the process of speciation, we propose that 'speciation …

Geographic mode of speciation and genomic divergence

JL Feder, SM Flaxman, SP Egan… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Understanding speciation requires determining how inherent barriers to gene flow
(reproductive isolation, RI) evolve between populations. The field of population genomics …

What is speciation genomics? The roles of ecology, gene flow, and genomic architecture in the formation of species

CR Campbell, JW Poelstra… - Biological Journal of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
As is true of virtually every realm of the biological sciences, our understanding of speciation
is increasingly informed by the genomic revolution of the past decade. Investigators can ask …

How important are structural variants for speciation?

L Zhang, R Reifová, Z Halenková, Z Gompert - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Understanding the genetic basis of reproductive isolation is a central issue in the study of
speciation. Structural variants (SVs); that is, structural changes in DNA, including inversions …