Dispersal Reduction: Causes, Genomic Mechanisms, and Evolutionary Consequences

Recent biological analyses suggest that reductions in dispersal ability have beenkey drivers of diversification across numerous lineages. We synthesise emergingdata to highlight similarities regarding the causes and consequences of dispersalreduction across taxa and ecosystems, as well as the divers...

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Autores: Waters, J.M., Emerson, Brent C., Arribas, Paula, McCulloch, G. A.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/209120
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/209120
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Dispersal
Ecological selection
Evolutionary genomics
Flightless
Parallel evolution
Transporter hypothesis
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Sumario:Recent biological analyses suggest that reductions in dispersal ability have beenkey drivers of diversification across numerous lineages. We synthesise emergingdata to highlight similarities regarding the causes and consequences of dispersalreduction across taxa and ecosystems, as well as the diverse genomic mechanismsunderpinning these shifts. Natural selection has acted on standing genetic variationwithin taxa to drive often rapid–and in some cases parallel–losses of dispersal,and ultimately speciation. Such shifts can thus represent an important nexus be-tween adaptive and neutral diversification processes, with substantial evolutionaryconsequences. Recognition of the links between these concepts that are emergingfrom differentfields, taxa and ecosystems is transforming our understanding of thefascinating role of dispersal reduction in the formation of biodiversity.