Speciation

Recent Papers

Assortative Mating in Animals and Its Role for Speciation

Tim Janicke,Lucas Marie-Orleach,Thomas G. Aubier,Charles Perrier,Edward H. Morrow

Free Access

A Minimal Model for the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient Suggests a Dominant Role for Ecological Limits

Rampal S. Etienne, Juliano Sarmento Cabral, Oskar Hagen, Florian Hartig, Allen H. Hurlbert, Loïc Pellissier, Mikael Pontarp, and David Storch

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Nov-Etienne.html

Assessing Behavioral Associations in a Hybrid Zone through Social Network Analysis: Complex Assortative Behaviors Structure Associations in a Hybrid Quail Population

David M. Zonana, Jennifer M. Gee, Eli S. Bridge, Michael D. Breed, and Daniel F. Doak

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneZonana.html

Time Explains Regional Richness Patterns within Clades More Often than Diversification Rates or Area

Hong Li and John J. Wiens

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprHongLi.html

Does Population Structure Predict the Rate of Speciation? A Comparative Test across Australia’s Most Diverse Vertebrate Radiation

Sonal Singhal, Huateng Huang, Maggie R. Grundler, María R. Marchán-Rivadeneira, Iris Holmes, Pascal O. Title, Stephen C. Donnellan, and Daniel L. Rabosky

Speciation Rate Is Independent of the Rate of Evolution of Morphological Size, Shape, and Absolute Morphological Specialization in a Large Clade of Birds

Nicholas M. A. Crouch and Robert E. Ricklefs

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprCrouch.html

Reconstructing the Geography of Speciation from Contemporary Biodiversity Data

Alexander Skeels and Marcel Cardillo

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebSkeels.html

Introgression across Hybrid Zones Is Not Mediated by Large X-Effects in Green Toads with Undifferentiated Sex Chromosomes

Jörn F. Gerchen, Christophe Dufresnes, and Matthias Stöck

Does Population Structure Predict the Rate of Speciation? A Comparative Test across Australia’s Most Diverse Vertebrate Radiation

Sonal Singhal, Huateng Huang, Maggie R. Grundler, María R. Marchán-Rivadeneira, Iris Holmes, Pascal O. Title, Stephen C. Donnellan, and Daniel L. Rabosky

The Role of Geography in Adaptive Radiation

John J. Schenk and Scott J. Steppan

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctSchenk.html

Open Access

A Probable Case of Incipient Speciation in Schizocosa Wolf Spiders Driven by Allochrony, Habitat Use, and Female Mate Choice

R. Tucker Gilman, Kasey Fowler-Finn, and Eileen A. Hebets

Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/SepGilman.html

Synthesis, Open Access

Coupling, Reinforcement, and Speciation

Roger K. Butlin and Carole M. Smadja

Synthesis

Mechanisms of Assortative Mating in Speciation with Gene Flow: Connecting Theory and Empirical Research

Michael Kopp, Maria R. Servedio, Tamra C. Mendelson, Rebecca J. Safran, Rafael L. Rodríguez, Mark E. Hauber, Elizabeth C. Scordato, Laurel B. Symes, Christopher N. Balakrishnan, David M. Zonana, and G. Sander van Doorn