Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: El Nagar A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5013760 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
El Nagar Aliya A MacColl Andrew D C AD
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20160801 1836
Spatial variation in parasitic infections is common, and has the potential to drive population divergence and the reproductive isolation of hosts. However, despite support from theory and model laboratory systems, little strong evidence has been forthcoming from the wild. Here, we show that parasites are likely to cause reproductive isolation in the adaptive radiation of three-spined stickleback. Adjacent wild populations on the Scottish island of North Uist differ greatly and consistently in th ...[more]