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    J Theor Biol. 2006 Mar 21;239(2):172-82. Epub 2005 Oct 20.

    The Maynard Smith model of sympatric speciation.

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    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 37996, USA. sergey@tiem.utk.edu

    Abstract

    The paper entitled "Sympatric speciation," which was published by John Maynard Smith in 1966, initiated the development of mathematical models aiming to identify the conditions for sympatric speciation. A part of that paper was devoted to a specific two-locus, two-allele model of sympatric speciation in a population occupying a two-niche system. Maynard Smith provided some initial numerical results on this model. Later, Dickinson and Antonovics (1973) and Caisse and Antonovics (1978) performed more extensive numerical studies on the model. Here, I report analytical results on the haploid version of the Maynard Smith model. I show how the conditions for sympatric and parapatric speciation and the levels of resulting genetic divergence and reproductive isolation are affected by the strength of disruptive selection and nonrandom mating, recombination rate, and the rates of male and female dispersal between the niches.

    PMID:
    16242727
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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