Speciation on islands: what are we learning?
Speciation on islands: what are we learning?
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01120.x
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发表时间：
2008-09-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Emerson, Brent C.
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作者：
Emerson, Brent C.
《从动物学家的观点看物种的系统学和起源》自首次出版以来，一直是进化生物学家书架上的重要文本。在这里，我扩大了几个主题所触及的恩斯特迈尔看看我们的思想是如何演变的，并正在演变，特别是参考岛屿上的分子系统发育研究。在本书出版时，除了化石记录之外，对时间趋势或模式的推断只能是推测性的，只能从物种的分布和这些分布所呈现的模式中推断出来。就像主题材料本身一样，进化生物学作为一门学科发展，工具和资源越来越多。分子遗传学和分子标记的发展为生物学家提供了一个了解过去的新窗口，因此，迈尔的想法和解释变得更容易进行测试。(C)2008年，伦敦林奈学会。
Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist has remained an essential text on the bookshelves of evolutionary biologists since it was first published. Here, I expand upon several topics touched upon by Ernst Mayr to look at how our thinking has evolved, and is evolving, with particular reference to molecular phylogenetic studies on islands. At the time of publication, apart from the fossil record, inferences of temporal trends or patterns could only be speculative, deduced from the distributions of species and the patterns that these present. Much like the subject material itself, evolutionary biology evolves as a discipline, with an increasing availability of tools and resources. The development of molecular phylogenetics and molecular markers has given biologists a new window on the past and, as such, the ideas and explanations of Mayr have become more accessible to testing. (C) 2008 The Linnean Society of London.