Mechanisms of speciation in reptiles and amphibians: a synopsis

, , , , , , , , , , , , ,
1 Department of Zoology, Weber State University, OGDEN, Utah, United States
2 Department of Biology, State University of New York College at Oneonta, Oneonta, New York, United States
3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
4 Centro Universitario de Rivera, Universidad de la República, Rivera, Uruguay
5 Instituto Patagónico para el Estudio de los Ecosistemas Continentales, Puerto Madryn, Argentina
6 Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States
7 Department of Comparative Anatomy, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University Cracow, Kraków, Poland
8 Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, Canada
9 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States
10 Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States
11 Zoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
12 Programa de Coleções Científicas Biológicas, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
13 Department of Natural Science, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
14 School of Environmental Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.27279v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Biodiversity, Biogeography, Evolutionary Studies, Genetics, Population Biology
Keywords
Speciation, niche, phylogeography, species delineation, ecological speciation
Copyright
© 2018 Marshall et al.
Licence
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
Cite this article
Marshall JC, Bastiaans E, Caccone A, Camargo A, Morando M, Niemiller ML, Pabijan M, Russello MA, Sinervo B, Sites, Jr. JW, Vences M, Werneck FP, Wollenberg Valero KC, Steinfartz S. 2018. Mechanisms of speciation in reptiles and amphibians: a synopsis. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27279v1

Abstract

Speciation processes have long been inferred from phylogenetic, phylogeographic, and biogeographic pattern-driven perspectives. Now much current speciation research is attempting to more directly describe the underlying processes and mechanisms of divergence leading to speciation. Ideally, researchers should integrate both process- and pattern-based approaches for a more comprehensive understanding of speciation. To this end, a symposium was organized during the 7th World Congress of Herpetology in Canada with the goal of bringing leading experts together to share successful examples of these perspectives and to promote a more cohesive understanding of reptile and amphibian speciation. Here we present a joint paper of short and updated summaries of each of these contributions with the aim of providing a reference source and launching pad for students and researchers interested in speciation in amphibians and reptiles.

Author Comment

This is a preprint submission to PeerJ Preprints.