From Local Adaptation to Speciation: Specialization and Reinforcement
Local adaptation is the first step in the process of ecological speciation. It is, however, an unstable and dynamic situation. It can be strengthened by the occurrence of alleles more specialized to the different habitats or vanish if generalist alleles arise by mutations and increase in frequency....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2012-01-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Ecology |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/508458 |