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Animal species and evolution
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MASS MORTALITY OF DIADEMA ANTILLARUM IN THE CARIBBEAN: What Have We Learned?
TL;DR: Description de la mortalite catastrophique de D. antillarum et essai de generalisation sur la connaissance acquise a partir de l'etude de ce phenomene.
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Ernst Mayr and the modern concept of species
TL;DR: Reconciliation of incompatible species definitions and the development of a unified species concept require rejecting the interpretation of various contingent properties of metapopulation lineages, including intrinsic reproductive isolation in Mayr's definition, as necessary properties of species.
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Genes and speciation
Chung-I Wu,Chau-Ti Ting +1 more
TL;DR: Molecular studies of a handful of genes that are involved in maintaining reproductive isolation between species have provided some striking insights, suggesting that despite being strongly influenced by positive selection, speciation genes are often non-essential, having functions that are only loosely coupled to reproductive isolation.
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Detecting the Geographical Pattern of Speciation from Species-Level Phylogenies.
TL;DR: It is found that relatively recent speciation events are characterized by greater asymmetry in range size between sister clades than expected under the null models, providing potential support for the peripatric model of speciation.
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Mathematical consequences of the genealogical species concept
Richard R. Hudson,Jerry A. Coyne +1 more
TL;DR: The length of time it takes to attain genealogical species status is investigated when an ancestral population divides into two descendant populations of equal size with no gene exchange, and when genetic drift and mutation are the only evolutionary forces operating.