A Model of Sympatric Speciation Through Reinforcement
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2010

Sympatric speciation, i.e. the evolutionary split of one species into two in the same environment, has been a highly troublesome concept. It has been a questioned if it is actually possible. Even though there have been a number of reported results both in the wild and from controlled experiments in laboratories, those findings are both hard to get and hard to analyze, or even repeat. In the current study we propose a mathematical model which addresses the question of sympatric speciation and the evolution of reinforcement. Our aim has been to capture some of the essential features such as: phenotype, resources, competition, heritage, mutation, and reinforcement, in as simple a way as possible. Still, the resulting model is not too easy to grasp with purely analytical tools, so we have also complemented those studies with stochastic simulations. We present a few results that both illustrates the usefulness of such a model, but also rises new biological questions about sympatric speciation and reinforcement in particular.

structured populations

adaptation

sexual selection

hybrids

phenotypic plasticity

evolution

Simulation

Evolution

displacement

premating isolation

Speciation

Författare

J. Henriksson

NOVUM

Torbjörn Lundh

Chalmers, Matematiska vetenskaper, Matematik

Göteborgs universitet

Bernt Wennberg

Göteborgs universitet

Chalmers, Matematiska vetenskaper, Matematik

Kinetic and Related Models

1937-5093 (ISSN) 1937-5077 (eISSN)

Vol. 3 1 143-163

Ämneskategorier

Beräkningsmatematik

DOI

10.3934/krm.2010.3.143

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2017-10-08