What Is Speciation?

Speciation driven by hybridization and chromosomal plasticity in a wild yeast

(2016) Jean-Baptiste Leducq et al.   Nature Microbiology

How reticulated are species?

(2015) James Mallet et al.   BIOESSAYS

Gene-specific selective sweeps in bacteria and archaea caused by negative frequency-dependent selection

(2015) Nobuto Takeuchi et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Multilevel Selection Theory and the Evolutionary Functions of Transposable Elements: Fig. 1.—

(2015) Tyler D.P. Brunet et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

No evidence of inhibition of horizontal gene transfer by CRISPR–Cas on evolutionary timescales

(2015) Uri Gophna et al.   ISME Journal

A population genomics insight into the Mediterranean origins of wine yeast domestication

(2015) Pedro Almeida et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Horizontal gene transfer: building the web of life

(2015) Shannon M. Soucy et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Homoploid hybrid speciation and genome evolution via chromosome sorting

(2015) V. A. Lukhtanov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological speciation in bacteria: reverse ecology approaches reveal the adaptive part of bacterial cladogenesis

(2015) Florent Lassalle et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Fine-scale diversity and extensive recombination in a quasisexual bacterial population occupying a broad niche

(2015) M. J. Rosen et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic islands of speciation separate cichlid ecomorphs in an East African crater lake

(2015) M. Malinsky et al.   SCIENCE

The Hologenome Concept: Helpful or Hollow?

(2015) Nancy A. Moran et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Host Biology in Light of the Microbiome: Ten Principles of Holobionts and Hologenomes

(2015) Seth R. Bordenstein et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Chromosomal variation segregates within incipient species and correlates with reproductive isolation

(2014) Guillaume Charron et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Reanalysis suggests that genomic islands of speciation are due to reduced diversity, not reduced gene flow

(2014) Tami E. Cruickshank et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA

(2014) Emilia Huerta-Sánchez et al.   NATURE

Explaining microbial genomic diversity in light of evolutionary ecology

(2014) Otto X. Cordero et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Evaluation of genetic isolation within an island flora reveals unusually widespread local adaptation and supports sympatric speciation

(2014) A. S. T. Papadopulos et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Competition-dispersal tradeoff ecologically differentiates recently speciated marine bacterioplankton populations

(2014) Y. Yawata et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Local climatic adaptation in a widespread microorganism

(2014) J.-B. Leducq et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Extensive introgression in a malaria vector species complex revealed by phylogenomics

(2014) M. C. Fontaine et al.   SCIENCE

Ordering microbial diversity into ecologically and genetically cohesive units

(2014) B. Jesse Shapiro et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Genome-wide evidence for speciation with gene flow inHeliconiusbutterflies

(2013) Simon H. Martin et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Bacterial natural transformation by highly fragmented and damaged DNA

(2013) S. Overballe-Petersen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Low Species Barriers in Halophilic Archaea and the Formation of Recombinant Hybrids

(2012) Adit Naor et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolutionary analyses of non-genealogical bonds produced by introgressive descent

(2012) E. Bapteste et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tomato immune receptor Ve1 recognizes effector of multiple fungal pathogens uncovered by genome and RNA sequencing

(2012) R. de Jonge et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lateral gene transfer as a support for the tree of life

(2012) S. S. Abby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Population Genomics of Early Events in the Ecological Differentiation of Bacteria

(2012) B. J. Shapiro et al.   SCIENCE

Speciation by symbiosis

(2012) Robert M. Brucker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Patterns of Gene Flow Define Species of Thermophilic Archaea

(2012) Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Adaptive Introgression across Species Boundaries in Heliconius Butterflies

(2012) Carolina Pardo-Diaz et al.   PLoS Genetics

Microbe domestication and the identification of the wild genetic stock of lager-brewing yeast

(2011) D. Libkind et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Local Mobile Gene Pools Rapidly Cross Species Boundaries To Create Endemicity within Global Vibrio cholerae Populations

(2011) Y. Boucher et al.   mBio

How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Repetitive Elements May Comprise Over Two-Thirds of the Human Genome

(2011) A. P. Jason de Koning et al.   PLoS Genetics

A novel mode of chromosomal evolution peculiar to filamentous Ascomycete fungi

(2011) James K Hane et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic incongruence arising from fragmented speciation in enteric bacteria

(2010) A. C. Retchless et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Multidrug-Resistant Enterococci Lack CRISPR-cas

(2010) K. L. Palmer et al.   mBio

The role of transposable elements in the evolution of non-mammalian vertebrates and invertebrates

(2010) Noa Sela et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Breakdown in Postmating Isolation and the Collapse of a Species Pair through Hybridization

(2009) Jocelyn E. Behm et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Islands of speciation or mirages in the desert? Examining the role of restricted recombination in maintaining species

(2009) M A F Noor et al.   HEREDITY

Genomic Insights into the Convergence and Pathogenicity Factors of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli Species

(2009) A. Caro-Quintero et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Population genomics of domestic and wild yeasts

(2009) Gianni Liti et al.   NATURE

Explaining microbial population genomics through phage predation

(2009) Francisco Rodriguez-Valera et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Biogeography of the Sulfolobus islandicus pan-genome

(2009) M. L. Reno et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence for Ecological Speciation and Its Alternative

(2009) D. Schluter   SCIENCE

Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish

(2008) Ole Seehausen et al.   NATURE

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

(2008) Patrick J. Keeling et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Hybridization, ecological races and the nature of species: empirical evidence for the ease of speciation

(2008) J. Mallet   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Convergence of Campylobacter Species: Implications for Bacterial Evolution

(2008) S. K. Sheppard et al.   SCIENCE