ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2022
The strength of reproductive isolating barriers in seed plants: Insights from studies quantifying premating and postmating reproductive barriers over the past 15 years.
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Abstract
Speciation is driven by the evolution of reproductive isolating barriers that reduce, and ultimately prevent, substantial gene flow between lineages. Despite its central role in evolutionary biology, the process can be difficult to study because it proceeds differently among groups and may occur over long timescales. Due to this complexity, we typically rely on generalizations of empirical data to describe and understand the process. Previous reviews of reproductive isolation (RI) in flowering plants have suggested that prezygotic or extrinsic barriers generally have a stronger effect on reducing gene flow compared to postzygotic or intrinsic barriers. Past conclusions have rested on relatively few empirical estimates of RI; however, RI data have become increasingly abundant over the past 15 years. We analyzed data from recent studies quantifying multiple pre- and postmating barriers in plants and compared the strengths of isolating barriers across 89 taxa pairs using standardized RI metrics. Individual prezygotic barriers were on average stronger than individual postzygotic barriers, and the total strength of prezygotic RI was approximately twice that of postzygotic RI. These findings corroborate that ecological divergence and extrinsic factors, as opposed to solely the accumulation of genetic incompatibilities, are important to speciation and the maintenance of species boundaries in plants. Despite an emphasis in the literature on asymmetric postmating and postzygotic RI, we found that prezygotic barriers acted equally asymmetrically. Overall, substantial variability in the strengths of 12 isolating barriers highlights the great diversity of mechanisms that contribute to plant diversification.
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