Revealing the mechanisms of sexual isolation in a case of sympatric and parallel ecological divergence

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 513-526

  Conde Padín, Paula ^a   Cruz, Raquel ^b   Hollander, Johan ^c   Rolán Alvarez, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Hybrid zone; Incipient speciation; Littorina saxatilis; Mate choice; Mate discrimination; Mating behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ASSORTATIVE MATING; HYBRID ZONE; MATE CHOICE; MATING BEHAVIOR; MICROHABITAT; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SNAIL; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; SWEDEN;

GASTROPODA; LITTORINA SAXATILIS;

EID: 45249121204     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.00998.x     Document Type: Article

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