Once it has evolved, myrmecochory may facilitate diversification in two ways [31].
Ecological segregation has also facilitated diversification of the eastern Blepsimolge through repeated colonization of subterranean habitats.
The evolutionary patterns across these paralogs show how gene conversion can both constrain and facilitate diversification of genetic sequences.
Our results suggest that geographical barriers may have facilitated diversification of long tubular species in the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains. Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains
Once cancerous traits have evolved, an elevated mutation rate and metastatic potential may facilitate diversification and persistence of the cancerous cells (Bielas et al. 2006).
Not only has the Iberian Peninsula sourced the northern redistribution of species after ice ages, but it has also facilitated diversification through patterns of repeated population fragmentation, contraction, expansion and admixture.
In the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains, geographical barriers may have facilitated diversification of species with long corolla tubes, and the reproductive advantages of beakless galeas in opposite-/whorled-leaved species may boost speciation at high altitude.
Results indicating that phylogenies of both Plasmodium and Haemoproteus groups within our study region diversified across longitudinal axes, which also represent sharp elevational and temperature changes, lend further support to the idea that these transitions facilitate diversification.
