Evolution and instability in ring species complexes: An in silico approach to the study of speciation

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1202-1213

  Ashlock, Daniel ^a   Clare, Elizabeth L ^a   von Königslöw, Taika E ^a   Ashlock, Wendy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive landscape; Computational simulation; Evolutionary computation; SAW problem; Species

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COMPUTER MODEL; DEVELOPMENT; FERTILITY; GENE FLOW; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENOTYPE; INFERTILITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALAMANDER; SIMULATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 77952950966     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.03.017     Document Type: Article

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