Sentence examples for induced speciation from inspiring English sources

These new colonizations may have altered the ecological conditions, and thereby induced speciation within tenrecs, either by predation pressure (carnivores) or by interspecific niche competition (rodents).

Our results suggest that repeated reconnections between the West/Central and East African rain forest blocks allowed for biotic exchange while the break-ups induced speciation via vicariance, enhancing the levels of endemicity.

Selection imposed by ecological interactions might also induce speciation.

Interestingly, the use of this drive type would effectively induce speciation in the affected population.

This case suggests that CI alone cannot induce speciation in Drosophila.

Perhaps surprisingly, it will turn out that both factors, when acting on their own, are not able to induce speciation.

More recently, several simulation studies (Wu 1985; Turner and Burrows 1995; Van Doorn et al. 1998; Higashi et al. 1999) led the authors to conclude that sexual selection on its own (i.e., in sympatry) is able to induce speciation.

For example, transposition into a genomic location that interferes with reproduction and induces speciation is not only casually distinct from any organism-level adaptive hypotheses for TE carriage, but in most cases is maladaptive at that level.

Though Mayr (1942) is largely remembered for elaborating the concept of allopatric speciation (see Thanukos 2008, for a review), in reality, it was Dobzhansky who had first resurrected the importance of isolation (primarily geographically induced) in speciation and thus to the evolutionary process in general.

The ecological gradient hypothesis posits that environmental gradients can induce parapatric speciation (or ecotypic differentiation) without the need for population isolation.

Do we have very many examples of infection-induced speciation through the imposition of reproductive barriers or other means?