[HTML][HTML] Insights from genomes into the evolutionary importance and prevalence of hybridization in nature

SA Taylor, EL Larson - Nature ecology & evolution, 2019 - nature.com
Hybridization is an evolutionary phenomenon that has fascinated biologists for centuries.
Prior to the advent of whole-genome sequencing, it was clear that hybridization had played …

A combinatorial view on speciation and adaptive radiation

DA Marques, JI Meier, O Seehausen - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2019 - cell.com
Speciation is often thought of as a slow process due to the waiting times for mutations that
cause incompatibilities, and permit ecological differentiation or assortative mating. Cases of …

[HTML][HTML] Drivers and dynamics of a massive adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes

F Ronco, M Matschiner, A Böhne, A Boila, HH Büscher… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Adaptive radiation is the likely source of much of the ecological and morphological diversity
of life,,–. How adaptive radiations proceed and what determines their extent remains unclear …

Comparing adaptive radiations across space, time, and taxa

RG Gillespie, GM Bennett, L De Meester… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Adaptive radiation plays a fundamental role in our understanding of the evolutionary
process. However, the concept has provoked strong and differing opinions concerning its …

Three problems in the genetics of speciation by selection

D Schluter, LH Rieseberg - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Speciation is the process by which barriers to gene flow evolve between populations.
Although we now know that speciation is largely driven by natural selection, knowledge of …

Cycles of fusion and fission enabled rapid parallel adaptive radiations in African cichlids

JI Meier, MD McGee, DA Marques, S Mwaiko, M Kishe… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Although some lineages of animals and plants have made impressive adaptive radiations
when provided with ecological opportunity, the propensities to radiate vary profoundly …

Extensive genome-wide phylogenetic discordance is due to incomplete lineage sorting and not ongoing introgression in a rapidly radiated bryophyte genus

O Meleshko, MD Martin, TS Korneliussen… - Molecular biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The relative importance of introgression for diversification has long been a highly disputed
topic in speciation research and remains an open question despite the great attention it has …

Ancestral hybridization facilitated species diversification in the Lake Malawi cichlid fish adaptive radiation

H Svardal, FX Quah, M Malinsky… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in East African Lake Malawi encompasses over 500
species that are believed to have evolved within the last 800,000 years from a common …

The importance of alternative splicing in adaptive evolution

P Singh, EP Ahi - 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Although alternative splicing is a ubiquitous co‐transcriptional gene regulatory mechanism
in plants, animals and fungi, its contribution to evolutionary transitions is understudied …

Recombination-aware phylogenomics reveals the structured genomic landscape of hybridizing cat species

G Li, HV Figueiró, E Eizirik… - Molecular biology and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Current phylogenomic approaches implicitly assume that the predominant phylogenetic
signal within a genome reflects the true evolutionary history of organisms, without assessing …