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Coupling, Reinforcement, and Speciation by Butlin, Roger K., Smadja, Carole M.

“…During the process of speciation, populations may diverge for traits and at their underlying loci that contribute barriers to gene flow. These barrier traits…”
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Variation in recombination frequency and distribution across eukaryotes: patterns and processes by Stapley, Jessica, Feulner, Philine G. D., Johnston, Susan E., Santure, Anna W., Smadja, Carole M.

“…Recombination, the exchange of DNA between maternal and paternal chromosomes during meiosis, is an essential feature of sexual reproduction in nearly all…”
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A framework for comparing processes of speciation in the presence of gene flow by SMADJA, CAROLE M., BUTLIN, ROGER K.

“…How common is speciation‐with‐gene‐flow? How much does gene flow impact on speciation? To answer questions like these requires understanding of the common…”
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Recombination: the good, the bad and the variable by Stapley, Jessica, Feulner, Philine G. D., Johnston, Susan E., Santure, Anna W., Smadja, Carole M.

“…Recombination, the process by which DNA strands are broken and repaired, producing new combinations of alleles, occurs in nearly all multicellular organisms…”
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Coupling of Barriers to Gene Exchange: Causes and Consequences by Dopman, Erik B, Shaw, Kerry L, Servedio, Maria R, Butlin, Roger K, Smadja, Carole M

“…Coupling has emerged as a concept to describe the transition from differentiated populations to newly evolved species through the strengthening of reproductive…”
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The role of copy-number variation in the reinforcement of sexual isolation between the two European subspecies of the house mouse by North, Henry L, Caminade, Pierre, Severac, Dany, Belkhir, Khalid, Smadja, Carole M

“…Reinforcement has the potential to generate strong reproductive isolation through the evolution of barrier traits as a response to selection against…”
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Do changes in gene expression contribute to sexual isolation and reinforcement in the house mouse? by Loire, Etienne, Tusso, Sergio, Caminade, Pierre, Severac, Dany, Boursot, Pierre, Ganem, Guila, Smadja, Carole M.

“…Expression divergence, rather than sequence divergence, has been shown to be important in speciation, particularly in the early stages of divergence of traits…”
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LARGE-SCALE CANDIDATE GENE SCAN REVEALS THE ROLE OF CHEMORECEPTOR GENES IN HOST PLANT SPECIALIZATION AND SPECIATION IN THE PEA APHID by Smadja, Carole M., Canbäck, Björn, Vitalis, Renaud, Gautier, Mathieu, Ferrari, Julia, Zhou, Jing-Jiang, Butlin, Roger K.

“…Understanding the drivers of speciation is critical to interpreting patterns of biodiversity. The identification of the genetic changes underlying adaptation…”
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Differential gene expression according to race and host plant in the pea aphid by Eyres, Isobel, Jaquiéry, Julie, Sugio, Akiko, Duvaux, Ludovic, Gharbi, Karim, Zhou, Jing-Jiang, Legeai, Fabrice, Nelson, Michaela, Simon, Jean-Christophe, Smadja, Carole M., Butlin, Roger, Ferrari, Julia

“…Host‐race formation in phytophagous insects is thought to provide the opportunity for local adaptation and subsequent ecological speciation. Studying gene…”
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Sexual selection against natural hybrids may contribute to reinforcement in a house mouse hybrid zone by Latour, Yasmin, Perriat-Sanguinet, Marco, Caminade, Pierre, Boursot, Pierre, Smadja, Carole M., Ganem, Guila

“…Sexual selection may hinder gene flow across contact zones when hybrid recognition signals are discriminated against. We tested this hypothesis in a unimodal…”
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Identifying genomic hotspots of differentiation and candidate genes involved in the adaptive divergence of pea aphid host races by Nouhaud, Pierre, Gautier, Mathieu, Gouin, Anaïs, Jaquiéry, Julie, Peccoud, Jean, Legeai, Fabrice, Mieuzet, Lucie, Smadja, Carole M., Lemaitre, Claire, Vitalis, Renaud, Simon, Jean‐Christophe

“…Identifying the genomic bases of adaptation to novel environments is a long‐term objective in evolutionary biology. Because genetic differentiation is expected…”
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Molecular heterogeneity in major urinary proteins of Mus musculus subspecies: potential candidates involved in speciation by Hurst, Jane L., Beynon, Robert J., Armstrong, Stuart D., Davidson, Amanda J., Roberts, Sarah A., Gómez-Baena, Guadalupe, Smadja, Carole M., Ganem, Guila

“…When hybridisation carries a cost, natural selection is predicted to favour evolution of traits that allow assortative mating (reinforcement). Incipient…”
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Homage to Felsenstein 1981, or why are there so few/many species? by Butlin, Roger K., Servedio, Maria R., Smadja, Carole M., Bank, Claudia, Barton, Nicholas H., Flaxman, Samuel M., Giraud, Tatiana, Hopkins, Robin, Larson, Erica L., Maan, Martine E., Meier, Joana, Merrill, Richard, Noor, Mohamed A. F., Ortiz-Barrientos, Daniel, Qvarnström, Anna

“…If there are no constraints on the process of speciation, then the number of species might be expected to match the number of available niches and this number…”
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Seeking signatures of reinforcement at the genetic level: a hitchhiking mapping and candidate gene approach in the house mouse by Smadja, Carole M., Loire, Etienne, Caminade, Pierre, Thoma, Marios, Latour, Yasmin, Roux, Camille, Thoss, Michaela, Penn, Dustin J., Ganem, Guila, Boursot, Pierre

“…Reinforcement is the process by which prezygotic isolation is strengthened as a response to selection against hybridization. Most empirical support for…”
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WIDESPREAD HOST-DEPENDENT HYBRID UNFITNESS IN THE PEA APHID SPECIES COMPLEX by Peccoud, Jean, de la Huerta, Manon, Bonhomme, Joël, Laurence, Cindy, Outreman, Yannick, Smadja, Carole M., Simon, Jean-Christophe

“…Linking adaptive divergence to hybrid unfitness is necessary to understand the ecological factors contributing to reproductive isolation and speciation. To…”
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Dynamics of copy number variation in host races of the pea aphid by Duvaux, Ludovic, Geissmann, Quentin, Gharbi, Karim, Zhou, Jing-Jiang, Ferrari, Julia, Smadja, Carole M, Butlin, Roger K

“…Copy number variation (CNV) makes a major contribution to overall genetic variation and is suspected to play an important role in adaptation. However, aside…”
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Targeted re‐sequencing confirms the importance of chemosensory genes in aphid host race differentiation by Eyres, Isobel, Duvaux, Ludovic, Gharbi, Karim, Tucker, Rachel, Hopkins, David, Simon, Jean‐Christophe, Ferrari, Julia, Smadja, Carole M., Butlin, Roger K.

“…Host‐associated races of phytophagous insects provide a model for understanding how adaptation to a new environment can lead to reproductive isolation and…”
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Divergence of olfactory receptors associated with the evolution of assortative mating and reproductive isolation in mice by Smadja, Carole M., Loire, Etienne, Caminade, Pierre, Severac, Dany, Gautier, Mathieu, Ganem, Guila

“…Deciphering the genetic bases of behavioural traits is essential to understanding how they evolve and contribute to adaptation and biological diversification,…”
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Transcriptome characterisation of the ant Formica exsecta with new insights into the evolution of desaturase genes in social hymenoptera by Badouin, Hélène, Belkhir, Khalid, Gregson, Emma, Galindo, Juan, Sundström, Liselotte, Martin, Stephen J, Butlin, Roger K, Smadja, Carole M

“…Despite the recent sequencing of seven ant genomes, no genomic data are available for the genus Formica, an important group for the study of eusocial traits…”
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Correction to 'Variation in recombination frequency and distribution across eukaryotes: patterns and processes' by Stapley, Jessica, Feulner, Philine G. D., Johnston, Susan E., Santure, Anna W., Smadja, Carole M.

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