Speciation by sexual selection: 20 years of progress

TC Mendelson, RJ Safran - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
Twenty years ago, a seminal paper summarized the role of sexual selection in speciation as
the coordinated evolution of (male) courtship signals and (female) preferences leading to …

Genetics of adaptation

K Bomblies, CL Peichel - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The rediscovery of Mendel's work showing that the heredity of phenotypes is controlled by
discrete genes was followed by the reconciliation of Mendelian genetics with evolution by …

Evolution of the Correlated Genomic Variation Landscape Across a Divergence Continuum in the Genus Castanopsis

XY Chen, BF Zhou, Y Shi, H Liu… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The heterogeneous landscape of genomic variation has been well documented in
population genomic studies. However, disentangling the intricate interplay of evolutionary …

Bray‐Curtis (AFD) differentiation in molecular ecology: Forecasting, an adjustment (AA), and comparative performance in selection detection

WB Sherwin - Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Geographic genetic differentiation measures are used for purposes such as assessing
genetic diversity and connectivity, and searching for signals of selection. Confirmation by …

Variation in the genomic basis of parallel phenotypic and ecological divergence in benthic and pelagic morphs of Icelandic Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)

MK Brachmann, K Parsons, S Skúlason… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sympatric adaptive phenotypic divergence should be underlain by genomic differentiation
between subpopulations. When divergence drives similar patterns of phenotypic and …

Multigenerational backcrossing and introgression between two woodrat species at an abrupt ecological transition

JP Jahner, TL Parchman, MD Matocq - Molecular Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
When organisms experience secondary contact after allopatric divergence, genomic regions
can introgress differentially depending on their relationships with adaptation, reproductive …

Temporal decline of genetic differentiation among populations of western flower thrips across an invaded range

LN Sun, LJ Cao, JC Chen, LJ Ma, GF Zhang, SA Wu… - Biological …, 2023 - Springer
Colonizing populations of alien invasive species are often unstable due to their small
population size, ongoing gene flow, and ongoing adaptation to local conditions. These …

Variable signatures of selection despite conserved recombination landscapes early in speciation

SP Turbek, GA Semenov, ED Enbody… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Recently diverged taxa often exhibit heterogeneous landscapes of genomic differentiation,
characterized by regions of elevated differentiation on an otherwise homogeneous …

Putative chromosomal rearrangements are associated primarily with ecotype divergence rather than geographic separation in an intertidal, poorly dispersing snail

T Kess, M Brachmann… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Littorina saxatilis is becoming a model system for understanding the genomic basis of
ecological speciation. The parallel formation of crab‐adapted ecotypes that exhibit partial …

Genomic island of divergence during speciation and its underlying mechanisms

Q Sun, R Wang, X Chen - Biodiversity Science, 2022 - biodiversity-science.net
Background & Aims Understanding the mechanisms underlying the formation of species is a
major task of ecological and evolutionary studies. Aided by the rapid development of …