Although it is well appreciated that genetic studies of flowering time regulation have led to
fundamental advances in the fields of molecular and developmental biology, the ways in …

Plants adapted to special soil types are ideal for investigating evolutionary processes,
including maintenance of intraspecific variation, adaptation, reproductive isolation, ecotypic …

Microbes can have profound effects on their hosts, driving natural selection, promoting
speciation and determining species distributions. However, soil‐dwelling microbes are …

Oceanic islands and archipelagos are natural laboratories for investigating patterns and
processes of evolution. Islands change with the course of time, resulting in a dynamic …

Cytorhabdoviruses (genus Cytorhabdovirus, family Rhabdoviridae) are plant-infecting
viruses with enveloped, bacilliform virions. Established members of the genus …

Howea palms are viewed as one of the most clear-cut cases of speciation in sympatry. The
sister species Howea belmoreana and H. forsteriana are endemic to the oceanic Lord Howe …

Ecological isolation is increasingly thought to play an important role in speciation, especially
for the origin and reproductive isolation of homoploid hybrid species. However, the extent to …

Shifts in flowering time have the potential to act as strong prezygotic reproductive barriers in
plants. We investigate the role of flowering time divergence in two species of mountain rose …

The idea that populations must be geographically isolated (allopatric) to evolve into
separate species has persisted for a long time. It is now clear that new species can also …

Spatially and temporally varying selection can maintain genetic variation within and
between populations, but it is less well known how these forces influence divergence …