Migration and speciation

Kevin Winker ()
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Kevin Winker: University of Alaska Museum

Nature, 2000, vol. 404, issue 6773, 36-36

Abstract: Abstract Although migration is a common behaviour, the effects of this annual two-way event on the speciation process are poorly understood, even though birds, which are commonly migratory b played a critical role in the development of speciation theory1,2. Here I propose that new developments3,4 in the theory of sympatric speciation — a process whereby new species can arise through population differentiation without spatial isolation — may help to explain the bursts of speciation observed in some seasonal migrant lineages.

Date: 2000
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