The presence of M. tenuifolia on isolated patches of Afrotemperate habitat in the Mpumalanga, Gauteng and Limpopo provinces might also be attributed to landscape erosion enabling divergence in allopatry.
The program r8s1.71 [ 70], which enables estimating divergence time in the absence of a molecular clock, is used to estimate the divergence times in the obscura species group.
But what mechanism enables such divergence?
B. burgdorferi populations in the Northeast and Midwest are geographically isolated, enabling evolutionary divergence in human invasiveness.
This process enables phenotypic divergence under random mating by reducing the impact of recombination and increasing hybrid fitness.
Such experiments enable phenotypic divergence to be forced in response to changes in only few environmental conditions in the laboratory while other conditions are kept constant.
Whole-genome duplication (WGD) has been argued as a powerful evolutionary force creating new raw material for evolution to act upon [ 3], thus enabling the divergence and neo- or subfunctionalisation of duplicated loci promoting adaptation and speciation.
Precise dating of viral subtype divergence enables researchers to correlate divergence with geographic and demographic occurrences.
Tolerance of cells to new specificities likely enabled the evolutionary divergence of kinases.
Measures of DNA divergence enabled gene-by-gene comparisons of the level of genetic diversity in each population under study.
