Synergy between assortative mating and allopatry favor speciation in endemic Galapagos birds
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Simón Bolívar University, Caracas, Venezuela
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Biologia de Organismos, Universidad Simón Bolivar, Caracas, Miranda, Venezuela
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- Subject Areas
- Animal Behavior, Ecology, Evolutionary Studies, Mathematical Biology, Population Biology
- Keywords
- evolution, assortation, homophily, synergy, mate selection
- Copyright
- © 2019 Jaffe et al.
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- 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
- 2019. Synergy between assortative mating and allopatry favor speciation in endemic Galapagos birds. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27512v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27512v1
Abstract
Integrating new data with older reports on the behavior of small land-birds in the Galapagos archipelago reveal that geographic isolation of population together with behavioral segregation of populations produce a synergy that is more likely to produce speciation than any of those factors on its own. This result expands our understanding of assortative mating, based on computer experiments of biological evolution, showing that assortation favors speciation in both sympatric and allopatric populations.
Author Comment
The note expands our understanding of assortative mating showing that it may have a role in favoring speciation in both sympatric and allopatric populations.