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Unpredictable evolution in a 30-year study of Darwin's finchesPeter R Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544-1003, USA. prgrantprinceton.edu
Science 296:707-11. 2002..Continuous, long-term studies are needed to detect and interpret rare but important events and nonuniform evolutionary change...- Evolution of character displacement in Darwin's finchesPeter R Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 1003, USA
Science 313:224-6. 2006..These findings support the role of competition in models of community assembly, speciation, and adaptive radiations... 
Non-random fitness variation in two populations of Darwin's finchesP R Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, NJ 08544 1003, USA
Proc Biol Sci 267:131-8. 2000..Non-random fitness variation in fluctuating populations implies much smaller genetically effective sizes than breeding population sizes...- Conspecific versus heterospecific gene exchange between populations of Darwin's finchesPeter R Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 365:1065-76. 2010..Evolutionary change may be inhibited in G. magnirostris by continuing gene flow, but enhanced in G. fortis and G. scandens by introgressive hybridization... - The secondary contact phase of allopatric speciation in Darwin's finchesPeter R Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 1003, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:20141-8. 2009..The study reveals additional stochastic elements of speciation, in which divergence is initiated in allopatry; immigration to a new area of a single male hybrid and initial breeding with a rare hybrid female... - Pedigrees, assortative mating and speciation in Darwin's finchesPeter R Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 1003, USA
Proc Biol Sci 275:661-8. 2008..It parallels a similar phenomenon when another species, the large ground finch, immigrated to Daphne and established a new population without interbreeding with the resident medium ground finches... - Causes of lifetime fitness of Darwin's finches in a fluctuating environmentPeter R Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:674-9. 2011..Our study of fitness shows why this is so in terms of selective pressures (fledgling production and adult longevity) and ecological opportunities (pulsed food supply and relatively low predation)... - Darwin's finchesPeter R Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Curr Biol 15:R614-5. 2005 - Hybridization in the recent pastPeter R Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 1003, USA
Am Nat 166:56-67. 2005.... - A population founded by a single pair of individuals: establishment, expansion, and evolutionP R Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, NJ 08544 1003, USA
Genetica 112:359-82. 2001..Thus the study provides evidence of drift and selection causing morphological and genetic divergence in the establishment of a new population and in the first few generations... - Founder effects and silvereyesPeter R Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1003, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:7818-20. 2002 - Convergent evolution of Darwin's finches caused by introgressive hybridization and selectionPeter R Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 1003, USA
Evolution 58:1588-99. 2004..The study illustrates how species without postmating barriers to gene exchange can alternate between convergence and divergence when environmental conditions oscillate... - Inbreeding and interbreeding in Darwin's finchesPeter R Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 1003, USA
Evolution 57:2911-6. 2003.... - Environmental conditions affect the magnitude of inbreeding depression in survival of Darwin's finchesLukas F Keller
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544, USA
Evolution 56:1229-39. 2002..magnirostris. These results suggest that substantial inbreeding depression can exist in insular populations of birds, and that the magnitude of the inbreeding depression is a function of environmental conditions... - Fission and fusion of Darwin's finches populationsB Rosemary Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 363:2821-9. 2008..We propose that introgression has the largest effect on the evolution of interbreeding species after they have diverged in morphology, but before the point is reached when genetic incompatibilities incur a severe fitness cost... - Songs of Darwin's finches diverge when a new species enters the communityB Rosemary Grant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:20156-63. 2010..magnirostris in their songs than did their fathers. Divergence from an aversive or confusing stimulus during learning illustrates a "peak shift" that may be a common feature of song evolution and speciation... - Predicting emergence, chorusing, and oviposition of periodical cicadasUta Oberdörster
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544, USA
Ecology 87:409-18. 2006.... - Bmp4 and morphological variation of beaks in Darwin's finchesArhat Abzhanov
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Science 305:1462-5. 2004..When misexpressed in chicken embryos, Bmp4 caused morphological transformations paralleling the beak morphology of the large ground finch G. magnirostris... - The calmodulin pathway and evolution of elongated beak morphology in Darwin's finchesArhat Abzhanov
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Nature 442:563-7. 2006..More generally, our results implicate the CaM-dependent pathway in the developmental regulation of craniofacial skeletal structures... - Possible human impacts on adaptive radiation: beak size bimodality in Darwin's finchesAndrew P Hendry
Redpath Museum and Department of Biology, McGill University, 859 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6, Canada
Proc Biol Sci 273:1887-94. 2006..Human activities may negatively impact diversification in 'young' adaptive radiations, perhaps by altering adaptive landscapes... - Habitat selection and ecological speciation in Galápagos warbler finches (Certhidea olivacea and Certhidea fusca)Brandon Tonnis
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221-0006, USA
Proc Biol Sci 272:819-26. 2005..These results suggest that small populations can harbour cryptic but biologically meaningful variation that may affect longer term evolutionary processes... - The origin and diversification of Galapagos mockingbirdsBrian S Arbogast
Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California 95521, USA
Evolution Int J Org Evolution 60:370-82. 2006....