What do we need to know about speciation

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Article Outline

• The future focus of speciation research
• The origin and build-up of reproductive isolation
• • Question 1. Which barriers contribute to reproductive isolation?
  • Question 2. When does drift have a significant role?
  • Question 3. What are the relative roles of natural and sexual selection?
  • Question 4. What is the role of reinforcement?
  • Question 5. How important is hybridisation in speciation?
  • Question 6. What are the environmental and genetic conditions that promote speciation?
• Genetic and genomic signatures of speciation
• • Question 7. What is the nature of speciation genes? Can speciation result from specific genes?
  • Question 8. What is the role of changes in gene expression and in genomic processes?
  • Question 9. What is the role of plasticity?
  • Question 10. What are the genomic patterns of reproductive isolation?
• Connecting speciation and biodiversity
• • Question 11. How are biodiversity patterns related to speciation mechanisms?
  • Question 12. What causes variation in speciation rate and duration?
  • Question 13. What is the impact of anthropogenic change?
• Concluding remarks
• Online discussion forum
• Acknowledgements
• Appendix A. Supplementary data
• References
• Glossary