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Sympatric speciation in Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fish

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  • Marta Barluenga

    (University of Konstanz)

  • Kai N. Stölting

    (University of Konstanz)

  • Walter Salzburger

    (University of Konstanz
    Center for Junior Research Fellows, University of Konstanz)

  • Moritz Muschick

    (University of Konstanz)

  • Axel Meyer

    (University of Konstanz)

Abstract

Going it alone, together One of the hottest controversies in evolutionary biology is sympatric speciation, the formation of new species in the absence of geographical boundaries. The controversy is about whether it happens or not: it ‘should’ in theory but it is difficult to prove it. Two new examples of the phenomenon are reported this week, one in fish and one (online) in plants, convincing evidence that as Darwin suggested, sympatric speciation is likely to be common. The fishy example is the formation of Amphilophus zaliosus from A. citrinellus in a volcanic crater lake in Nicaragua. And in plants, the curly palm Howea belmoreana and the thatch palm H. forsteriana diverged on Lord Howe Island, a volcanic island 480 km east of Australia in the Tasman Sea.

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  • Marta Barluenga & Kai N. Stölting & Walter Salzburger & Moritz Muschick & Axel Meyer, 2006. "Sympatric speciation in Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fish," Nature, Nature, vol. 439(7077), pages 719-723, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:439:y:2006:i:7077:d:10.1038_nature04325
    DOI: 10.1038/nature04325
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    1. Jianhua Wang & Guan-Zhu Han, 2023. "Genome mining shows that retroviruses are pervasively invading vertebrate genomes," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-11, December.
    2. Melisa Olave & Alexander Nater & Andreas F. Kautt & Axel Meyer, 2022. "Early stages of sympatric homoploid hybrid speciation in crater lake cichlid fishes," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.
    3. Omori, Koji & Ohnishi, Hidejiro & Hamaoka, Hideki & Kunihiro, Tadao & Ito, Sayaka & Kuwae, Michinobu & Hata, Hiroki & Miller, Todd W. & Iguchi, Keiichiro, 2012. "Speciation of fluvial forms from amphidromous forms of migratory populations," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 243(C), pages 89-94.

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