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      Speciation in birds: genes, geography, and sexual selection.

      Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
      Animals, Birds, classification, genetics, Geography, Reproduction, physiology, Selection, Genetic, Sex Chromosomes, Sexual Behavior, Animal

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          Molecular studies of speciation in birds over the last three decades have been dominated by a focus on the geography, ecology, and timing of speciation, a tradition traceable to Mayr's Systematics and the Origin of Species. However, in the recent years, interest in the behavioral and molecular mechanisms of speciation in birds has increased, building in part on the older traditions and observations from domesticated species. The result is that many of the same mechanisms proffered for model lineages such as Drosophila--mechanisms such as genetic incompatibilities, reinforcement, and sexual selection--are now being seriously entertained for birds, albeit with much lower resolution. The recent completion of a draft sequence of the chicken genome, and an abundance of single-nucleotide polymorphisms on the autosomes and sex chromosomes, will dramatically accelerate research on the molecular mechanisms of avian speciation over the next few years. The challenge for ornithologists is now to inform well studied examples of speciation in nature with increased molecular resolution-to clone speciation genes if they exist--and thereby evaluate the relative roles of extrinsic, intrinsic, deterministic, and stochastic causes for avian diversification.

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          15851678
          1131863
          10.1073/pnas.0501846102

          Chemistry
          Animals,Birds,classification,genetics,Geography,Reproduction,physiology,Selection, Genetic,Sex Chromosomes,Sexual Behavior, Animal

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