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Establishment of new mutations under divergence and genome hitchhikingJeffrey L Feder
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367:461-74. 2012..The results generate predictions about genome divergence at different points in the speciation process and avenues for further work...
The genomics of speciation-with-gene-flowJeffrey L Feder
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Trends Genet 28:342-50. 2012....
Adaptive chromosomal divergence driven by mixed geographic mode of evolutionJeffrey L Feder
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Evolution 65:2157-70. 2011..As inversion differences often separate closely related taxa, mixed modes of divergence could be common...
The efficacy of divergence hitchhiking in generating genomic islands during ecological speciationJeffrey L Feder
Dept of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
Evolution 64:1729-47. 2010..Thus, speciation may often require multifarious selection acting on many, isolated and physically unlinked genes. How hitchhiking promotes further adaptive divergence warrants consideration...
Evidence for inversion polymorphism related to sympatric host race formation in the apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonellaJeffrey L Feder
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 0369, USA
Genetics 163:939-53. 2003..We explore whether these genomic regions (inversions) constitute coadapted gene complexes and discuss the implications of our findings for sympatric speciation in Rhagoletis...
Allopatric genetic origins for sympatric host-plant shifts and race formation in RhagoletisJeffrey L Feder
Department of Biological Sciences, P O Box 369, Galvin Life Science Center, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 0369, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:10314-9. 2003..Thus, important raw genetic material facilitating the adaptive radiation of R. pomonella originated in a different time and place than the proximate ecological host shifts triggering sympatric divergence...
Chromosomal inversions and species differences: when are genes affecting adaptive divergence and reproductive isolation expected to reside within inversions?Jeffrey L Feder
Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
Evolution 63:3061-75. 2009..We also find that strong selection facilitates maintenance of divergence in a manner analogous to inversions...
Intergenic exchange, geographic isolation, and the evolution of bioluminescent color for Pyrophorus click beetlesJeffrey L Feder
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
Evolution 63:1203-16. 2009..We also explore whether intergenic exchange may commonly create novel variation and the potential for cyclic evolution in other multigene family systems...
Mayr, Dobzhansky, and Bush and the complexities of sympatric speciation in RhagoletisJeffrey L Feder
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Galvin Life Science Center, IN 46556 0369, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:6573-80. 2005....
Sequential sympatric speciation across trophic levelsAndrew A Forbes
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Galvin Life Sciences Building, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Science 323:776-9. 2009..pomonella flies to their host plants have also quickly evolved and serve as ecological barriers to reproduction, isolating the wasps. Speciation therefore cascades as the effects of new niche construction move across trophic levels...
Hawthorn-infesting populations of Rhagoletis pomonella in Mexico and speciation mode pluralityXianfa Xie
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 0369, USA
Evolution 61:1091-105. 2007....
Integrating biogeographic and genetic approaches to investigate the history of bioluminescent colour alleles in the Jamaican click beetle, Pyrophorus plagiophthalamusSebastian Velez
Department of Biological Sciences, 290c Galvin Life Science Bldg, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
Mol Ecol 15:1393-404. 2006..We discuss the implications of the results for discerning ecological causation in the adaptive sequence from nucleotide to landscape to population change for bioluminescent colour...
The genetic structure of hawthorn-infesting Rhagoletis pomonella populations in Mexico: implications for sympatric host race formationAndrew P Michel
Department of Biological Sciences, PO Box 369, Galvin Life Sciences Building, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 0369, USA
Mol Ecol 16:2867-78. 2007..Indeed, the microsatellite data suggest that the current US population may represent a range expansion from the northern SMO. We discuss the implications of these findings for sympatric race formation in Rhagoletis and speciation theory...
The genetic basis for fruit odor discrimination in Rhagoletis flies and its significance for sympatric host shiftsHattie R Dambroski
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-0369, USA
Evolution Int J Org Evolution 59:1953-64. 2005..We explore the implications of our findings for the evolutionary dynamics of sympatric host race formation and speciation...
Darwinian natural selection for orange bioluminescent color in a Jamaican click beetleUwe Stolz
Department of Biological Sciences, P.O. Box 369, Galvin Life Science Center, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-0369, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:14955-9. 2003..Thus, the current luciferase polymorphism for P. plagiophthalamus appears to be mirroring the long-term anagenic trend on Jamaica, revealing a possible ongoing adaptive color transition in progress...
Widespread genomic divergence during sympatric speciationAndrew P Michel
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN 46556 0369, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:9724-9. 2010..These results highlight how the individual genes driving speciation can be embedded within an actively diverging genome...
A field test for host fruit odour discrimination and avoidance behaviour for Rhagoletis pomonella flies in the western United StatesS B Sim
Department of Biological Sciences, Galvin Life Sciences Building, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
J Evol Biol 25:961-71. 2012..In addition, the rapid evolution of avoidance behaviour appears to be a general phenomenon for R. pomonella during host shifts, as the eastern apple and downy hawthorn host races also are antagonized by non-natal fruit volatiles...
On the scent of standing variation for speciation: behavioral evidence for native sympatric host races of Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the southern United StatesThomas H Q Powell
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
Evolution 66:2739-56. 2012..pomonella may evolve novel combinations of agonist and antagonist responses to volatiles to use new fruit resources...
Herbivorous insects: model systems for the comparative study of speciation ecologyDaniel J Funk
Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
Genetica 116:251-67. 2002....
Conservation in a cup of water: estimating biodiversity and population abundance from environmental DNADavid M Lodge
Environmental Change Initiative, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Mol Ecol 21:2555-8. 2012..Overall, Thomsen et al. (2012) provide a revolutionary roadmap for using eDNA for detection of species, estimates of relative abundance and quantification of biodiversity...
Habitat avoidance: overlooking an important aspect of host-specific mating and sympatric speciation?Andrew A Forbes
Department of Biological Sciences, P O Box 369, Galvin Life Science Center, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 0369, USA
Evolution 59:1552-9. 2005..Our findings reveal an underappreciated role for habitat avoidance as a potential postmating, as well as prezygotic, barrier to gene flow...
Resolving a DNA sequencing artifact associated with topoisomerase I generated clones in the plasmid pCR2.1Andrew A Forbes
Department of Biological Sciences, Galvin Life Science Center, University of Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Biotechniques 42:458, 460, 462. 2007
PERMANENT GENETIC RESOURCES: Polymorphic microsatellite loci for Diachasma alloeum (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)Andrew A Forbes
Department of Biological Sciences, 107 Galvin Life Science Building, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA, Biology Department, Duke University, Research Drive, LSRC B333, Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Mol Ecol Resour 8:373-6. 2008..pomonella biological control programmes. We also report the cross-species amplification of several loci for Diachasmimorpha mellea and Diachasma ferrugineum, parasitoids of R. pomonella and R. cingulata, respectively...
Importance of hybridization between indigenous and nonindigenous freshwater species: an overlooked threat to North American biodiversityWilliam L Perry
Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematic Section, Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 61790 4120, USA
Syst Biol 51:255-75. 2002..We suggest this approach may be the first step in addressing the potential threat of hybridization between many of the closely related species in North American fresh waters...
Patterns of genomic differentiation between ecologically differentiated M and S forms of Anopheles gambiae in West and Central AfricaKyanne R Reidenbach
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
Genome Biol Evol 4:1202-12. 2012....
Genomic consequences of multiple speciation processes in a stick insectPatrik Nosil
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Proc Biol Sci 279:5058-65. 2012..Future work could adopt experimental, mapping and functional approaches to directly test which genetic regions are affected by selection and determine their physical location in the genome...
Molecular detection of invasive species in heterogeneous mixtures using a microfluidic carbon nanotube platformAndrew R Mahon
Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Aquatic Conservation, The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e17280. 2011..With further refinement for on-board application, the technology could lead to real-time ballast water screening to improve ship-specific management and control decisions...
Receptor expression and sympatric speciation: unique olfactory receptor neuron responses in F1 hybrid Rhagoletis populationsShannon B Olsson
Department of Entomology, Barton Lab, NYSAES, Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456, USA
J Exp Biol 209:3729-41. 2006....
Postzygotic isolating factor in sympatric speciation in Rhagoletis flies: reduced response of hybrids to parental host-fruit odorsCharles E Linn
Department of Entomology, Barton Laboratory, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:17753-8. 2004..Therefore, host-specific mating may play a dual role as an important postzygotic as well as a premating reproductive barrier to isolate sympatric Rhagoletis flies...
Speciation genetics: evolving approachesMohamed A F Noor
DCMB Group Biology Department, Duke University, Box 91000, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
Nat Rev Genet 7:851-61. 2006....
Fruit odor discrimination and sympatric host race formation in RhagoletisCharles Linn
Department of Entomology, New York State Agricultural Experimental Station, Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:11490-3. 2003..We have therefore identified a key and recently evolved (<150 years) mechanism responsible for host choice in R. pomonella bearing directly on sympatric host race formation and speciation...
Sympatric speciation in phytophagous insects: moving beyond controversy?Stewart H Berlocher
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 S Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Annu Rev Entomol 47:773-815. 2002..Our conclusion is that sympatric speciation is a viable hypothesis. We highlight areas where more thorough testing is needed to move sympatric speciation into the realm of accepted scientific theory...
