Everything about Sympatric speciation
Evolution of a new species from an ancestor in the same location
Sympatric speciation is the evolution of a new species from a surviving ancestral species while both continue to inhabit the same geographic region. In evolutionary biology and biogeography, sympatric and sympatry are terms referring to organisms whose ranges overlap so that they occur together at least in some places. If these organisms are closely related, such a distribution may be the result of sympatric speciation. Etymologically, sympatry is derived from Greek συν (sun-) 'together' and πατρίς (patrís) 'fatherland'. The term was coined by Edward Bagnall Poulton in 1904, who explains the derivation. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Sympatric speciationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Early stages of sympatric homoploid hybrid speciation in crater lake cichlid fishesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Evolution in actionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: On the origin of species by sympatric speciationCited 1,450 times
- Go sideways: SympatryA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Reinforcement (speciation)A closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
On the origin of species by sympatric speciation
Host races in plant–feeding insects and their importance in sympatric speciation
Sympatric Speciation
Sympatric Speciation in Phytophagous Insects: Moving Beyond Controversy?
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Early stages of sympatric homoploid hybrid speciation in crater lake cichlid fishes
Exploring coral speciation: Multiple sympatric Stylophora pistillata taxa along a divergence continuum on the Great Barrier Reef
Speciation with gene flow between two Neotropical sympatric species (Pitcairnia spp.: Bromeliaceae)
Ecological speciation by sympatric host shifts in a clade of herbivorous sea slugs, with introgression and localized mitochondrial capture between species
Sympatric or micro-allopatric speciation in a glacial lake? Genomic islands support neither
📚 Books worth reading
Evolution in actionMatthias Glaubrecht, Harald Schneider · 2010
How and why species multiplyPeter R. Grant · 2007- 📕Sexual selection and sympatric speciationGerrit Sander van Doorn · 2004
- 📕Adaptive diversificationMichael Doebeli · 2011
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🔗 Related topics
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- Reinforcement (speciation) Reinforcement is a process of speciation where natural selection increases the reproductive isolation (further divided to pre-zygotic isolation and post-zygotic…
- Allopatric speciation Allopatric speciation is a mode of speciation that occurs when biological populations become geographically isolated from each other to an extent that…
- Parapatric speciation In parapatric speciation, two subpopulations of a species evolve reproductive isolation from one another while continuing to exchange genes. This mode…
- Ecological speciation Ecological speciation is a form of speciation arising from reproductive isolation that occurs due to an ecological factor that reduces or eliminates gene…
- Evidence for speciation by reinforcement Reinforcement is a process within speciation where natural selection increases the reproductive isolation between two populations of species by reducing…
- Speciation Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species. The biologist Orator F. Cook coined the term in 1906 for…
- History of speciation The scientific study of speciation — how species evolve to become new species — began around the time of Charles Darwin in the middle of the 19th century…