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ArticleBiology letters2015

The contribution of post-copulatory mechanisms to incipient ecological speciation in sticklebacks.

Joshka Kaufmann, Christophe Eizaguirre, Manfred Milinski, Tobias L Lenz

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Article in Biology letters, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Mate choice in sticklebacks reveals that immunogenes can drive ecological speciation.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Joshka KaufmannDepartment of Evolutionary Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany kaufmann@evolbio.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7850-3500
Christophe EizaguirreGEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Manfred MilinskiDepartment of Evolutionary Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany.
Tobias L LenzDepartment of Evolutionary Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology · DEQueen Mary University of London · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ecology can play a major role in species diversification. As individuals are adapting to contrasting habitats, reproductive barriers may evolve at multiple levels. While pre-mating barriers have been extensively studied, the evolution of post-mating reproductive isolation during early stages of ecological speciation remains poorly understood. In diverging three-spined stickleback ecotypes from two lakes and two rivers, we observed differences in sperm traits between lake and river males. Interestingly, these differences did not translate into ecotype-specific gamete precedence for sympatric males in competitive in vitro fertilization experiments, potentially owing to antagonistic compensatory effects. However, we observed indirect evidence for impeded development of inter-ecotype zygotes, possibly suggesting an early stage of genetic incompatibility between ecotypes. Our results show that pre-zygotic post-copulatory mechanisms play a minor role during this first stage of ecotype divergence, but suggest that genetic incompatibilities may arise at early stages of ecological speciation.

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Genetic SpeciationReproductive IsolationAnimalsEcosystemEcotypeFemaleGermanyMaleSmegmamorphaSpermatozoaecological speciationecotypefertilization successgamete precedenceGasterosteus aculeatus

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PMID25589488
PMCPMC4321156
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