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Allopatric Speciation—Drift Drift is important in evolution Just because an allele is common doesn’t mean selection favored it
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Speciation via drift? Probably not. Flies in allopatry, same environment never RIM Drift may facilitate speciation, but probably cannot often cause speciation on its own
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Ecological Speciation Sister species in the same lake Big is benthic, small is limnetic No interbreeding in nature– habitat isolation or pre- mating RIM?
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Low probability of spawning between different ecomorphs, even when closely related (A). Ecology is important in RIM. C = control (same species, same population, high probability of spawning) D = same ecotype, distantly related (act like same species) A = sympatric, closely related, different ecotype (act like different Biological species) B = allopatric, distantly related, different ecotype Reproductive compatibility determined more by ecotype than by genetic relatedness No-choice mating trials in the lab
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RIM appears to be body size—did divergent natural selection on body size speciation?
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Speciation via Sexual Selection Many sister lineages with same ecological niche, but different secondary sexual characters
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Greater species diversity in lineages with greater promiscuity. Due to stronger sexual selection?
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Fig. 24-12 EXPERIMENT Normal light Monochromatic orange light P. pundamilia P. nyererei Speciation by Sexual Selection Under manipulated lighting, females made “wrong” mate choice
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Genetics and Timing of Speciation
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Time to Speciation Varies
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Fig. 24-19 One-gene speciation
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RIM’s can be generated by simple differences in genetics
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Ancestral species: Triticum monococcum (2n = 14) AABB Wild Triticum (2n = 14) Product: AA BB DD T. aestivum (bread wheat) (2n = 42) Wild T. tauschii (2n = 14) DD Speciation may involve hybridization, so it can be quick for many species
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Speciation involves a stochastic element… Medium ground finches on Daphne major (Gallapagos Island)
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Top to bottom: A to F show successive generations of the hybrids, which now mate only with each other. Grant and Grant, PNAS, doi/10.1073/pnas.0911761106 Immigrant F1 F5 F6 Immigrant Geospiza fortis: large body, wide beak, unusual song (bad mimicry)
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The Grants followed the fate of the immigrant over 7 generations (28 years) The immigrant imitated (imperfectly) the local song and mated with a large female In generation 4, severe drought, lineage reduced to a single brother and sister, which mated From then on, this lineage was reproductively isolated—premating RIM RIM due to song – culturally transmitted to sons (learned)? – sound may also be a consequence of bill shape
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