The Roles of Sexual and Viability Selection in the Evolution of Incomplete Reproductive Isolation: From Allopatry to Sympatry

• Published in: The American naturalist Vol. 190; no. 5; p. 680
• Main Authors: Cotto, Olivier, Servedio, Maria R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.11.2017
• Subjects: Animals; Hybridization, Genetic; Mating Preference, Animal; Models, Biological; Reproductive Isolation; Selection, Genetic; Sympatry; mathematical model; migration; assortative mating; speciation

In recent years, theoretical models have introduced the concept that ongoing hybridization between "good" species can occur because incomplete reproductive isolation can be a selected optimum. They furthermore show that positive frequency-dependent sexual selection, which is naturally gene...