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- Title
GENES AND SPECIATION.
- Authors
Chung-I Wu; Chau-Ti Ting
- Abstract
It is only in the past five years that studies of speciation have truly entered the molecular era. Recent molecular analyses of a handful of genes that are involved in maintaining reproductive isolation between species (speciation genes) have provided some striking insights. In particular, it seems that despite being strongly influenced by positive selection, speciation genes are often non-essential, having functions that are only loosely coupled to reproductive isolation. Molecular studies might also resolve the long-running debate on the relative importance of allopatric and parapatric modes of speciation.
- Subjects
SPECIES; REPRODUCTIVE isolation; BIOLOGICAL classification; GENETICS; GENES
- Publication
Nature Reviews Genetics, 2004, Vol 5, Issue 2, p114
- ISSN
1471-0056
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrg1269