Refining the conditions for sympatric ecological speciation

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2651-2660

  Debarre F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Assortative mating; Disruptive selection; Mating preferences; Resource distributions; Soft selection; Sympatric speciation

Indexed keywords

ASSORTATIVE MATING; FITNESS; HETEROGENEITY; ISOLATED POPULATION; MATE CHOICE; NATURAL SELECTION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMPATRY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SYMPATRY;

EID: 84869223937     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02621.x     Document Type: Article

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