Review. Sympatric, parapatric or allopatric: The most important way to classify speciation?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1506, 2008, Pages 2997-3007

  Butlin, Roger K ^a   Galindo, Juan ^a   Grahame, John W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Incipient species; Littorina saxatilis; Local adaptation; Parallel speciation; Reproductive isolation

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GASTROPOD; GENE FLOW; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PARAPATRY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SYMPATRY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

GASTROPODA; LITTORINA SAXATILIS;

EID: 49649091099     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0076     Document Type: Review

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