Disentangling interactions between adaptive divergence and gene flow when ecology drives diversification

Ecology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 624-636

  Räsänen, Katja ^a   Hendry, Andrew P ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive divergence; Demography; Dispersal; Divergent selection; Ecological diversification; Gene flow; Positive feed back; Reproductive isolation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SELECTION;

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 43249083160     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01176.x     Document Type: Review

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