Initial Stages Of Reproductive Isolation In Two Species Of The Endangered Sonoran Topminnow

• Published in: Evolution Vol. 57; no. 12; pp. 2835 - 2841
• Main Authors: Hurt, C R, Hedrick, P W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.12.2003
• Subjects: Poeciliopsis occidentalis; Poeciliopsis occidentalis sonoriensis

Long-term geographic isolation can result in reproductive incompatibilities due to forces such as mutation, genetic drift, and differential selection. In the Sonoran topminnow, molecular genetic studies of mtDNA, microsatellites, and MHC genes have shown that the endangered Gila and Yaqui topminnows...