"Parallel speciation is important because it is like replication in a scientific study - it tells you whether a pattern and process are repeatable, which lends credence and statistical rigor to ...

Parallel speciation is when populations of the same species adapt to different environmental conditions, and as they become more and more different over time, they diverge genetically -- splitting ...

"Speciation is the evolutionary process that gives rise to new ... Stick Insect Genomes Reveal Natural Selection's Role in Parallel Speciation. Science, 2014; 344 (6185): 738 DOI: 10.1126/science ...

Demonstrations of ‘parallel speciation’, or assortative mating by selective environment, link ecology and isolation3,4,5, but the phenotypic traits mediating isolation have not been confirmed.

The researchers reported finding that early stages of parallel speciation in the stick insect involved mostly non-parallel genetic divergence between the ecotypes. However, ...

This alternative is ‘mutation-order speciation', ... B. J. & Sandoval, C. P. Host-plant adaptation drives the parallel evolution of reproductive isolation. Nature 417, 440–443 (2002).

More information: Jonathan Q. Richmond, Elizabeth L. Jockusch, and Andrew M. Latimer, "Mechanical Reproductive Isolation Facilitates Parallel Speciation in Western North American Scincid Lizards ...

But looking at speciation using both genetics and behavior in wild birds can be really difficult. ... In parallel, the researchers examined the song-related behavior of these populations.

A female stick insect resting upon the leaves of one of its host plants. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the May 16, 2014, issue of Science , published by AAAS. The paper, by V&#237 ...