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 ...

"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 ...

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

"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 ...

One of the host plant species (in the foreground, Adenostoma fasciculatum) that stick insects feed and live upon. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the May 16, 2014, issue of Science ...

They also created a statistical model that can, for the first time, estimate whether a species evolved under parallel or divergent adaptation. Across almost 3,000 sister pairs of birds, mammals and ...