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speciation
Wednesday 29 October 2003
All plant and animal species arise by speciation - the evolutionary splitting of one species into two reproductively incompatible species.
Our understanding of the molecular genetic details of speciation was slow in coming and largely limited to Drosophila species.
References
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Swanson WJ, Vacquier VD. The rapid evolution of reproductive proteins. Nat Rev Genet. 2002 Feb;3(2):137-44. PMID: 11836507
