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Advances in Ecological Speciation: an integrative approach |
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| Authors: | Rui Faria Sebastien Renaut Juan Galindo Catarina Pinho José Melo‐Ferreira Martim Melo Felicity Jones Walter Salzburger Dolph Schluter Roger Butlin |
| Affiliation: | 1. CIBIO, Centro de Investiga??o em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBio, Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto. Campus Agrário de Vair?o, , 4485‐661 Vair?o, Portugal;2. IBE, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF‐CSIC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra. PRBB, , 08003 Barcelona, Spain;3. Department of Botany, Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, , Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4;4. Departamento de Bioquímica, Xenética e Inmunoloxía, Facultade de Bioloxía, Universidade de Vigo, , 36310 Vigo, Spain;5. Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, , Tuebingen, 72070 Germany;6. Zoological Institute, University of Basel, , 4051 Basel, Switzerland;7. Department of Zoology, Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, , Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4;8. Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, , Sheffield, S10 2TN UK;9. Sven Lovén Centre – Tj?rn?, University of Gothenburg, , S‐452 96 Str?mstad, Sweden |
| Abstract: | The role of natural selection in promoting reproductive isolation has received substantial renewed interest within the last two decades. As a consequence, the study of ecological speciation has become an extremely productive research area in modern evolutionary biology. Recent innovations in sequencing technologies offer an unprecedented opportunity to study the mechanisms involved in ecological speciation. Genome scans provide significant insights but have some important limitations; efforts are needed to integrate them with other approaches to make full use of the sequencing data deluge. An international conference ‘Advances in Ecological Speciation’ organized by the University of Porto (Portugal) aimed to review current progress in ecological speciation. Using some of the examples presented at the conference, we highlight the benefits of integrating ecological and genomic data and discuss different mechanisms of parallel evolution. Finally, future avenues of research are suggested to advance our knowledge concerning the role of natural selection in the establishment of reproductive isolation during ecological speciation. |
| Keywords: | adaptive evolution ecology genome scan natural selection parallel evolution reproductive isolation |