Are species real? The shape of the species boundary with exponential failure, reinforcement, and the "missing snowball"

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-24

  Gourbière, Sébastien ^a   Mallet, James ^b,c  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b WISSENSCHAFTSKOLLEG ZU BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosomal incompatibility; Comparative analysis; Dobzhansky Muller incompatibilities; Reinforcement; Reproductive isolation

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DNA; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; INCOMPATIBILITY; MOTH; REINFORCEMENT; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION;

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; LEPIDOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; LEPIDOPTERA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ASTEROIDEA; LEPIDOPTERA; LEPTASTERIAS; SACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 73949094817     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00844.x     Document Type: Review

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