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Lecture 2 - Phylogenies and Speciation Flashcards

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3 Steps to Develop New Trait

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  1. Priming (makes it possible)
  2. Actualization of the trait (makes it manifest)
  3. Refinement (makes it effective)
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Priming

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Step 1: Mutation becomes possible

  1. Earlier mutations develop a genetic background on which the desired function is accessible
  2. Primed generations are more likely to develop the mutation

ex: mutation that results in upregulation of Kreb’s cycle so that citrate may be used more effectively

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Actualization

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Step 2: Trait manifests

  1. Mutation occurs that allows trait to actually occur
  2. Small but significant competitive advantage
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Refinement

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Step 3: Makes mutation effective

  1. Population with the trait begins to thrive
  2. Small mutation makes the trait more efective
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Evolution of the Eye

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Evolution of a complex trait

  • known to have evolved independently 50-100 times
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Stages of Evolution of the Eye

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  1. Priming:
    - development of light detecting pigments in common ancestor
    - other proteins that were already present for other functions were co-opted to function in the eye
  2. Actualization
    - now ready to evolve into a basic eye over and over
  3. Refinement
    - refined in each lineage to develop complexities such as color, lens, focusing
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Evolutionary Constraints (5)

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  • evolution can’t produce any trait we want
    1. Environment is constantly changing
    2. Dependent on a mutation randomly arising
    3. Evolution is limited to physical constraints
    4. Adaptations are Compromises
    5. Evolutions is limited by historical constraints
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Environment is Constantly Changing (Evolutionary constraint)

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  1. Environment influences what traits would be favored if evolving
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Dependent on a Mutation Arising (Evolutionary constraint)

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  1. Dependent on a mutation randomly arising (if an allele for a given trait does not exist , the trait cannot evolve even if it would be favorable)
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Limit of Physical Constraints (Evolutionary Constraint)

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  1. Evolution is limited to physical constraints

ex: limit to how light but strong birds wing bones can be

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Adaptations are often compromises (Evolutionary constraints)

examples

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  • horses: thinner legs are lighter and faster but more prone to breaking
  • snakes that are resistant to newt toxin are also slower…
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Historical Constraints (Evolutionary Constraints)

Examples

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  • Modifications of PREVIOUSLY existing structures
  • Build up what existed before in small steps
  • Not going to start over from scratch

Examples

  • Appendix is vestigial organ - don’t need to ruminate grass anymore
  • hernias arise because we are built to be quadrupeds and it strains our spine to walk upright
  • Hiccups are a reflex to make our now non-existent gills begin working when we are low in oxygen - gills are no longer there but still have the reflex
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Laryngeal Nerve Example

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Ex: Historical Constraint

  • Path: brain, down the neck, loops through arteries in chest, then up neck to larynx
  • Indirect –> not logical
  • the way it existed originally was in fish with no necks
  • As evolution occurred and animals developed neck, the nerve kept the same path
  • resulted in a loop
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Phylogeny

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The evolutionary history of relationships among organisms or their genes

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Phylogenic Tree

and features

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Diagram used to portray phylogenies

  • Based on similarities and differences in physical or genetic characteristics
  • Lineages joined together in tree have descended from common ancestor
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Node (Phylogenic Tree)

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  • split that represents point at which lineages diverged
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Root (Phylogenic Tree)

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  • The common ancestor of all organisms in a tree
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Taxon

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  • A group of species designated/named

- ex: humans, primates, vertebtrates

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Clade

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  • Taxon that consists of all the evolutionary descendents of a common tree
  • Are subsets fo larger clades
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Taxon vs Clade

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  • Taxon is ANY group of species we designate or name
  • A clade is a taxon that consists of all evolutionary descendents of a root
  • Track clade back to the branch point, everything from that point on is included in the clade
  • Clade is a taxon, but a taxon is not always a clade

Reptiles = Taxon but not clade
Clade would also include birds

Mammals = Clade

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Tree of Life

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  • Phylogenic tree that represents the complete evolutionary history of life
  • Describes relationships of all life on earth in an evolutionary context
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Three main “branches” in tree of life

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  • Bacteria
  • Eukarya
  • Archaea
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Homologous Traits

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Any feature shared by two or more species that have been inherited from a common ancestor

ex: whale fin, human arm, lizard leg, bird wing

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Ancestral Trait

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A current trait that was present in the ancestor of its current group

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Derived Trait

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A trait found in a descendant that differs from the ancestral trait

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Synapomorphies

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  • Shared derived traits
  • Shared through a clade
  • A newly derived homology
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Ancestral vs Derived Traits

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Depends on point of reference

Ex: Feathers

Ancestral

  • Considered ancestral for any group of modern birds
  • Homologous but not a synamopomorphy
  • In phylogeny of all living vertebrates, feathers are considered derived
  • synamopomorphy
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Continuity of Evolution

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  • All species are constantly evolving

- Doesn’t make sense to say some are more highly evolved

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Convergent Traits/Evolution

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  • Independently evolved traits subjected to similar selection pressures may become superficially similar
  • Similar traits in unrelated organisms
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Homoplasies

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Similar traits generated by convergent evolution

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Ingroup

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Focus of phylogenic tree

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How are phylogenic trees constructed?

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  • Can focus on any trait that is genetically determined, and therefore heritable
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Sources of data for phylogenic trees (5)

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Sources of data:

  • morphology
  • development
  • behavior
  • paleontology
  • molecular data
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Morphology

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Q: Do they look similar?

  • presence, size, shape and other attributes of body parts
  • Limitations: 1. some diverse species look similar (leopard frogs), 2. hard to compare very distant species (earthworms and humans)
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Development

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Q: Do they have similar traits early in life?

  • Similarities in developmental patterns
  • Ex: frog larva and seq squirt larva look similar
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Behavior

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Q: Do they behave similarly?

Ex: Flight animals

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Paleontology

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  • Fossils provide information about where organisms lived and what they looked like
  • Help determine derived ancestral traits and when lineages diverged
  • Information on extinct species is often critical to understanding the large divergences among surviving species

Limitations: fossil record is fragmentary and missing for some groups

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Molecular Data

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  • Heritable variation is encoded in DNA
  • most widely used data for constructing phylogenic trees
  • also use mitochondrial, chloroplast and nuclear DNA
  • mathematical models to describe how DNA sequences change over time
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How did self-fertilizing flowers arise?

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  • Convergent evolution
  • NOT members of the same species
  • ability arose independently three different times
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How is the “molecular clock” used to date divergent species?

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  • Use average rate at which mutations accumulate in a given gene or protein to gauge the timing of divergences
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Significance of HIV and evolution

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  • molecular clock can be used to datetransmission of HIV-1 from chimps
  • Data suggests the virus was transmitted from chimps to the original human around 1930
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Binomial Nomenclature

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two name system

genus + species

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Hierarchical Classification (acronym…)

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Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

“King Phillip came over for great spaghetti”

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“Species”

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Typically groups of organisms that mate with one another and produce fertile offspring

(not always clear cut)

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Species Concepts (3)

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  • Morphological
  • Lineage
  • Biological
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Morphological

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  • Individuals that look alike

limitation:
- not all members of a species look alike (males, females, juveniles)
- cryptic species morphologically indistinguishable but do not interbreed

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Lineage

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  • Species is considered a branch on the tree of life
  • speciation is process by which one species splits into two or more daughter species that evolve as distinct lineages
  • each lineage starts as a speciation even and ends in extinction or another speciation event
  • concept of a species over evolutionary time
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Biological

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Species are groups of inter-breeding natural populations that are reproductively isolated from other groups

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Reproductive isolation

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2 populations no longer exchange genes

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Polar Bear vs. Brown Bear

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  • considered to be two different species within genus Ursus
  • diverged 4-5 million years ago (lineage concept)
  • Can interbreed, produce fertile offspring, have intermittently mated during warming periods (biological concept)
  • Cannot survive long in each others climates, have different morphologies, metabolism, social and feeding behaviors (morphological concept)
  • most brown bears have 2% polar bear DNA, up to 5/10%
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Dog vs. Wolf

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  • dogs were domesticated from the grey wolf (lineage concept)
  • both in genus “Canus”
  • all breeds of dogs considered same species (biological, not-reproductively isolated = can mate)
  • dogs and wolves can also interbreed
  • husky looks more like a wolf than a chihuahua but WERE not considered same species
  • NOW considered a sub-species of the grey wolf
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How do new species arise?

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  1. Reproductive isolation
  2. Allopatric Speciation
  3. Sympatric speciation
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Reproductive Isolation

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  • Requires evolution of reproductive isolation within a species whose members formerly exchanged genes
  • As they diverge genetically, they become more reproductively isolated
  • May take millions of years or only generations for isolation to develop
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Allopatric Speciation

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  • PHYSICAL, aka geographical speciation
  • Results when a population is divided by a physical barrier
  • Evolve differences because environments are different
  • Barrier can form
  • Species can cross barrier (founder effect)
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Prezygotic Reproductive Barriers (5)

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  • Act BEFORE fertilization to prevent individuals of different species from mating
  1. Habitat Isolation
  2. Temporal Isolation
  3. Mechanical Isolation
  4. Behavioral Isolation
  5. Gametic Isolation
Harry
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Postzygotic reproductive barriers (3)

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  • Act AFTER fertilization to prevent development of viable offspring or reduce the offspring’s fertility
  1. low hybrid zygote viability
  2. low hybrid adult viability
  3. hybrid infertility
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Habitat Isolation

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  • Different species have evolved genetic preferences for different habitats to live or mate in
  • Never come into contact during mating periods
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Temporal Isolation

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  • Different species have distinct mating seasons

- Different times of year or times of day

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Mechanical Isolation

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  • Different sizes and shapes of reproductive organs prevent fertilization

(tiger and house cat…)

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Behavioral Isolation

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  • Reject or fail to recognize individuals of other species as potential breeding partners

ex:

  • different mating cals
  • pollination by specific insect or bird that is not drawn to other types of flowers
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Gametic Isolation

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  • sperm of one species does not attach to eggs of another

- chemically incompatible: attractive signals from egg or ability of sperm to penetrate egg

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low hybrid zygote viability

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  • zygote fails to mature normally
  • develops abnormalities
  • most do not survive birth
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low hybrid adult viability

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  • hybrid offspring have lower survivor-ship than purebred offspring
  • some different species of salamanders can mate with one another but the hybrid offspring are frail

(ligers?)

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hybrid infertility

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  • hybrids may mature normally but are infertile

ex: mules - healthy but sterile

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Outcomes in “hybrid zones”

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  1. Gene pools re-mix and combine into one species
  2. Reinforcement
  3. Formation of narrow hybrid zones
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gene pools re-mix and combine

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  • if hybrids are as fit as individuals of each species
  • hybrids will mate with individuals of both parental species
  • gene pools will gradually become mixed, resulting in one species
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reinforcement

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  • Post-zygotic reproductive barriers reinforce pre-zygotic barriers
  • hybrid offspring are less fit –> leads to reproductive isolation
  • natural selection favors evolution of pre-zygotic
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formation of narrow hybrid zones

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  • hybrid offspring are less fit but reinforcement is not complete
  • does not expand because of selective pressure against hybrids
  • continues to exist because the two parent species continue to move into it
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adaptive radiation

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  • rapid proliferation of species from a single ancestor to fill a variety of ecological niches in a new habitat
  • resulting species differ in the characteristics they use to exploit those environments

ex: Hawaiin Islands
- 10,000 species of insects from about 400 immigrant species
- 100 species of birds from 7 immigrant species
- 28 species of silversword plant

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Sympatric Speciation

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  • without physical isolation
  • species have a preference for certain microhabitats where mating takes place

ex: apple maggot fly
- historically deposited eggs on hawthorn fruits
- 150 yrs ago apple trees introduced, some flies began depositing eggs there
- flies began mating with other flies that preferred apples

ex: Horseshoe bats
- different echolocation call frequencies isolate bats

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Allopatric vs Sympatric Speciation

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Allopatric - species physically cannot get to each other

Sympatric - species, for some reason, choose not to mate with one another

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Hybrid Zones

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  • when reproductive isolation is incomplete
  • reproductive barriers do not completely prevent individuals from mating
  • closely related species may form hybrids in areas where ranges overlap
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Example of Adaptive Radiation

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ex: Hawaiin Islands
- 10,000 species of insects from about 400 immigrant species
- 100 species of birds from 7 immigrant species
- 28 species of silversword plant

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Rate of Speciation

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  • occurs at different rates
  • the more specialized a species is, the higher the rate of speciation
  • subtle differences lead to isolated groups diverging from original
  • higher in groups with poorer dispersal abilities
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Synapomorphies vs Homoplasies

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Synapomorphy

  • is synonymous with homologous trait
  • shared derived trait

Homoplasy

  • Traits generated by convergent evolution
  • similar environmental pressures allow similar traits to arise in different, unrelated animals
  • ex wings in bats and birds - very different structures actually

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