ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018
Role of sexual imprinting in assortative mating and premating isolation in Darwin's finches.
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- Larval environmental conditions influence plasticity in resource use by adults in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- Morphological ghosts of introgression in Darwin's finch populations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Character displacement drives trait divergence in a continental fauna.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Behavioural response to songs between genetically diverged allopatric populations of Darwin's small tree finch in the Galápagos.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2021Article
- Pattern blending enriches the diversity of animal colorations.Science advances · 2020Article
- Female-biased gene flow between two species of Darwin's finches.Nature ecology & evolution · 2020Article
- Triad hybridization via a conduit species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- How phenotypic matching based on neutral mating cues enables speciation in locally adapted populations.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Hybridization increases population variation during adaptive radiation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Adult sex ratio influences mate choice in Darwin's finches.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
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Abstract
Global biodiversity is being degraded at an unprecedented rate, so it is important to preserve the potential for future speciation. Providing for the future requires understanding speciation as a contemporary ecological process. Phylogenetically young adaptive radiations are a good choice for detailed study because diversification is ongoing. A key question is how incipient species become reproductively isolated from each other. Barriers to gene exchange have been investigated experimentally in the laboratory and in the field, but little information exists from the quantitative study of mating patterns in nature. Although the degree to which genetic variation underlying mate-preference learning is unknown, we provide evidence that two species of Darwin's finches imprint on morphological cues of their parents and mate assortatively. Statistical evidence of presumed imprinting is stronger for sons than for daughters and is stronger for imprinting on fathers than on mothers. In combination, morphology and species-specific song learned from the father constitute a barrier to interbreeding. The barrier becomes stronger the more the species diverge morphologically and ecologically. It occasionally breaks down, and the species hybridize. Hybridization is most likely to happen when species are similar to each other in adaptive morphological traits, e.g., body size and beak size and shape. Hybridization can lead to the formation of a new species reproductively isolated from the parental species as a result of sexual imprinting. Conservation of sufficiently diverse natural habitat is needed to sustain a large sample of extant biota and preserve the potential for future speciation.
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