ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2013
Macroevolutionary speciation rates are decoupled from the evolution of intrinsic reproductive isolation in Drosophila and birds.
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- Meta-analysis reveals that phenotypic plasticity and divergent selection promote reproductive isolation during incipient speciation.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Pooled it
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- Diversification rates in large-scale moss assemblages along latitudinal and climatic gradients across the world.Plant diversity · 2025Article
- Speciation completion rates have limited impact on macroevolutionary diversification.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- The Metapopulation Bridge to Macroevolutionary Speciation Rates: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Test.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Combining Molecular, Macroevolutionary, and Macroecological Perspectives on the Generation of Diversity.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2024Review
- Divergent dynamics of sexual and habitat isolation at the transition between stick insect populations and species.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Genetic drift promotes and recombination hinders speciation on holey fitness landscapes.PLoS genetics · 2024Article
- Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro- and macroevolution.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Review
- Temperature-Dependent Evolutionary Speed Shapes the Evolution of Biodiversity Patterns Across Tetrapod Radiations.Systematic biology · 2023Article
- Mito-nuclear selection induces a trade-off between species ecological dominance and evolutionary lifespan.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- No link between population isolation and speciation rate in squamate reptiles.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Faster evolution of a premating reproductive barrier is not associated with faster speciation rates in New World passerine birds.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- The dynamics of introgression across an avian radiation.Evolution letters · 2021Article
- Linking population-level and microevolutionary processes to understand speciation dynamics at the macroevolutionary scale.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Comparative studies on speciation: 30 years since Coyne and Orr.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
The rate at which speciation occurs varies greatly among different kinds of organisms and is frequently assumed to result from species- or clade-specific factors that influence the rate at which populations acquire reproductive isolation. This premise leads to a fundamental prediction that has never been tested: Organisms that quickly evolve prezygotic or postzygotic reproductive isolation should have faster rates of speciation than organisms that slowly acquire reproductive isolation. We combined phylogenetic estimates of speciation rates from Drosophila and birds with a method for analyzing interspecific hybridization data to test whether the rate at which individual lineages evolve reproductive isolation predicts their macroevolutionary rate of species formation. We find that some lineages evolve reproductive isolation much more quickly than others, but this variation is decoupled from rates of speciation as measured on phylogenetic trees. For the clades examined here, reproductive isolation--especially intrinsic, postzygotic isolation--does not seem to be the rate-limiting control on macroevolutionary diversification dynamics. These results suggest that factors associated with intrinsic reproductive isolation may have less to do with the tremendous variation in species diversity across the evolutionary tree of life than is generally assumed.
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