Hybridization increases population variation during adaptive radiation

PR Grant, BR Grant - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Adaptive radiations are prominent components of the world's biodiversity. They comprise
many species derived from one or a small number of ancestral species in a geologically …

Inference of gene flow between species under misspecified models

J Huang, Y Thawornwattana, T Flouri… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Genomic sequence data provide a rich source of information about the history of species
divergence and interspecific hybridization or introgression. Despite recent advances in …

Inferring the direction of introgression using genomic sequence data

Y Thawornwattana, J Huang, T Flouri… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Genomic data are informative about the history of species divergence and interspecific gene
flow, including the direction, timing, and strength of gene flow. However, gene flow in …

Hybridization, sex-specific genomic architecture and local adaptation

A Runemark, F Eroukhmanoff… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
While gene flow can reduce the potential for local adaptation, hybridization may conversely
provide genetic variation that increases the potential for local adaptation. Hybridization may …

Urbanization erodes niche segregation in Darwin's finches

LF De León, DMT Sharpe, KM Gotanda… - Evolutionary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization is influencing patterns of biological evolution in ways that are only beginning to
be explored. One potential effect of urbanization is in modifying ecological resource …

Hybridization and inbreeding affect the survival of a critically endangered coral

A Hernández-Agreda, J Huckeba, KE Prata… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Coral reefs face escalating pressures leading to unprecedented declines in the populations
of reef-building corals. 1, 2 Conservation genomic studies are critical in understanding and …

Population structure and genome-wide evolutionary signatures reveal putative climate-driven habitat change and local adaptation in the large yellow croaker

B Chen, Y Bai, J Wang, Q Ke, Z Zhou, T Zhou… - Marine Life Science & …, 2023 - Springer
The large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) is one of the most economically valuable
marine fish in China and is a notable species in ecological studies owing to a serious …

Additive negative effects of Philornis nest parasitism on small and declining Neotropical bird populations

M Bulgarella, MA Quiroga, GE Heimpel - Bird Conservation …, 2019 - cambridge.org
The declining-population paradigm holds that small populations are particularly vulnerable
to anthropogenic influences such as habitat destruction, pollution and species introductions …

Role of sexual imprinting in assortative mating and premating isolation in Darwin's finches

PR Grant, BR Grant - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Global biodiversity is being degraded at an unprecedented rate, so it is important to
preserve the potential for future speciation. Providing for the future requires understanding …

Buzzes are used as signals of aggressive intent in Darwin's finches

Ç Akçay, D Colombelli-Négrel… - Biological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Signals of aggression may potentially reduce the fitness costs of conflict during agonistic
interactions if they are honest. Here we examined whether the 'buzz'vocalization in two …