Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro- and macroevolution
Conceptual and empirical bridges between micro- and macroevolution
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DOI：
10.1038/s41559-023-02116-7
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发表时间：
2023-07-10
影响因子：
16.8
通讯作者：
Schluter，Dolph
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作者：
Rolland，Jonathan;Henao-Diaz，L. Francisco;Schluter，Dolph
解释广泛的分子，表型和物种的生物多样性模式需要一个统一的框架跨越多个进化尺度。在这里，我们认为，虽然已经作出了大量的努力，以协调微观进化和宏观进化，还有很多工作要做，以确定生物过程之间的联系在发挥作用。我们强调进化生物学的四个主要问题，其解决方案需要微观和宏观进化之间的概念桥梁。我们回顾了未来研究的潜在途径，以确定一个尺度的机制（漂移，突变，迁移，选择）如何转化为另一个尺度的过程（物种形成，灭绝，地理分布），反之亦然。我们提出的方法，目前的比较方法来推断分子进化，表型进化和物种多样性可以得到改善，以具体解决这些问题。我们的结论是，研究人员比以往任何时候都更有能力建立一个综合体，以了解数百万年来微进化动力学是如何展开的。
Explaining broad molecular, phenotypic and species biodiversity patterns necessitates a unifying framework spanning multiple evolutionary scales. Here we argue that although substantial effort has been made to reconcile microevolution and macroevolution, much work remains to identify the links between biological processes at play. We highlight four major questions of evolutionary biology whose solutions require conceptual bridges between micro and macroevolution. We review potential avenues for future research to establish how mechanisms at one scale (drift, mutation, migration, selection) translate to processes at the other scale (speciation, extinction, biogeographic dispersal) and vice versa. We propose ways in which current comparative methods to infer molecular evolution, phenotypic evolution and species diversification could be improved to specifically address these questions. We conclude that researchers are in a better position than ever before to build a synthesis to understand how microevolutionary dynamics unfold over millions of years.