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In this analysis, the hypothesis that speciation rate declined during the Late Devonian biodiversity crisis due to a reduction in speciation by vicariance is tested.
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The rate analyses congruently indicate a reduction in both speciation and extinction rate during the Frasnian stage when compared to the Givetian stage.
In all cases, Devonian taxa exhibited a congruent reduction in speciation rate between the Middle Devonian pre-crisis interval and the Late Devonian crisis interval.
During the Late Devonian Biodiversity Crisis, the primary driver of biodiversity decline was the dramatic reduction in speciation rates, not elevated extinction rates; however, the causes of speciation decline have been previously unstudied.
Second, polyploidization must involve a reduction in Ne due to a bottleneck during speciation.
The link between rate of molecular evolution and diversification rate has been attributed to the action of selection during speciation, or to a reduction in average population size in lineages undergoing diversification [ 14], both of which would be expected to increase the relative rate of nonsynonymous substitutions.
This may be related to a reduction in the overall dispersal or to an increased local speciation.
A reduction in effective population size (N e ) may be caused by a speciation event that changes the population structure, such as vicariant or peripatric speciation [ 52].
That is, a relatively high, early rate of diversification followed by a decrease in speciation rate.
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