TY - JOUR

T1 - Ecological Speciation and the Intertidal Snail Littorina saxatilis

AU - Galindo, Juan

AU - Grahame, John W.

PY - 2014/7/22

Y1 - 2014/7/22

N2 - In recent decades biologists studying speciation have come to consider that the process does not necessarily require the presence of a geographical barrier. Rather, it now seems to be possible for reproductive barriers to evolve within what was hitherto a single ‘‘species.’’ The intertidal snail Littorina saxatilis has been the focus of a considerable amount of work in this context, and it is now thought of as a good case study of ‘‘ecological speciation.’’ We review some of this work and briefly consider prospects for future developments.

AB - In recent decades biologists studying speciation have come to consider that the process does not necessarily require the presence of a geographical barrier. Rather, it now seems to be possible for reproductive barriers to evolve within what was hitherto a single ‘‘species.’’ The intertidal snail Littorina saxatilis has been the focus of a considerable amount of work in this context, and it is now thought of as a good case study of ‘‘ecological speciation.’’ We review some of this work and briefly consider prospects for future developments.

U2 - 10.1155/2014/239251

DO - 10.1155/2014/239251

M3 - Article

VL - 2014

JO - Advances in Ecology

JF - Advances in Ecology

SN - 2356-6647

M1 - 239251

ER -