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Animal species and evolution

Ernst Mayr
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The article was published on 1963-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7870 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Species problem.

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Adaptive evolution and explosive speciation : the cichlid fish model

Thomas D. Kocher
- 01 Apr 2004 - 
TL;DR: The cost of DNA sequencing continues to fall, which makes it feasible to develop genomic resources for new model species that are well suited for studying questions in evolutionary biology.
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Strategies to protect biological diversity and the evolutionary processes that sustain it.

Craig Moritz
- 01 Mar 2002 - 
TL;DR: A useful strategy may be to identify areas that are important to represent species and genetic diversity and maximize within these areas the protection of contiguous environmental gradients across which selection and migration can interact to maintain population viability and adaptive genetic diversity.
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Prokaryotic Evolution in Light of Gene Transfer

J. Peter Gogarten, +2 more
- 01 Dec 2002 - 
TL;DR: The role of recombination and HGT in giving phenotypic "coherence" to prokaryotic taxa at all levels of inclusiveness, the implications of these processes for the reconstruction and meaning of "phylogeny," and new views of proKaryotic adaptation and diversification based on gene acquisition and exchange are discussed.
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A Radical Solution to the Species Problem

Michael T. Ghiselin
- 01 Dec 1974 - 
TL;DR: Hull (1974) has lately endorsed the idea that, from the point of view of evolutionary theory, biological species and monophyletic taxa are individuals, and Mayr (1969a), while not going so far, strongly emphasizes the point that species are more than just nominal classes.
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Comparison of genetic differentiation at marker loci and quantitative traits

Juha Merilä, +1 more
- 01 Nov 2001 - 
TL;DR: The degree of differentiation in quantitative traits (QST) typically exceeds that observed in neutral marker genes (FST), suggesting a prominent role for natural selection in accounting for patterns of quantitative trait differentiation among contemporary populations.