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Speciation

Speciation . Chapter 17. Barriers to Gene Flow. Whether or not a physical barrier deters gene flow depends upon: Organism’s mode of dispersal or locomotion Duration of time organism can move . Genetic Drift in Snail Populations. Robert Selander studied Helix aspersa

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Speciation

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  1. Speciation Chapter 17

  2. Barriers to Gene Flow • Whether or not a physical barrier deters gene flow depends upon: • Organism’s mode of dispersal or locomotion • Duration of time organism can move

  3. Genetic Drift in Snail Populations • Robert Selander studied Helix aspersa • Collected snails from a two-block area • Analyzed the allele frequencies for five genes

  4. Genetic Drift in Snail Populations

  5. Snail Speciation? • Will the time come when the snails from opposite sides of the street are so different that they can no longer interbreed? • If so, then they will have become two distinct species

  6. Speciation & Natural Selection • Natural selection can lead to speciation • Speciation can also occur as a result of other microevolutionary processes • Genetic drift • Mutation

  7. Morphology & Species • Morphological traits may not be useful in distinguishing species • Members of same species may appear different because of environmental conditions • Morphology can vary with age and sex • Different species can appear identical

  8. Variable Morphology Grown in water Grown on land

  9. Biological Species Concept “Species are groups of interbreeding natural populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups.” Ernst Mayr

  10. Reproductive Isolation • Cornerstone of the biological species concept • Speciation is the attainment of reproductive isolation • Reproductive isolation arises as a by-product of genetic change

  11. Genetic Divergence • Gradual accumulation of differences in the gene pools of populations • Natural selection, genetic drift, and mutation can contribute to divergence • Gene flow counters divergence

  12. Genetic Divergence populations of one species (gold) populations of a daughter species (green) time A time B time C time D

  13. Reproductive Isolating Mechanisms • Prezygotic isolation • Mating or zygote formation is prevented • Postzygotic isolation • Takes effect after hybrid zygotes form • Zygotes may die early, be weak, or be sterile

  14. Prezygotic Isolation Ecological Isolation Temporal Isolation Behavioral Isolation Mechanical Isolation Gametic Mortality

  15. Postzygotic Mechanisms • Zygotic mortality • Hybrid inviability • Hybrid sterility

  16. Mechanisms of Speciation • Allopatric speciation • Sympatric speciation • Parapatric speciation

  17. Allopatric Speciation • Speciation in geographically isolated populations • Probably most common mechanism • Some sort of barrier arises and prevents gene flow • Effectiveness of barrier varies with species

  18. Allopatric Speciation in Wrasses • Isthmus of Panama arose and separated wrasses in Atlantic and Pacific • Since separation, genes for certain enzymes have diverged in structure • Divergence may be evidence of speciation in progress

  19. Extensive Divergence Prevents Inbreeding • Species separated by geographic barriers will diverge genetically • If divergence is great enough it will prevent inbreeding even if the barrier later disappears

  20. Archipelagos • Island chains some distance from continents • Galapagos Islands • Hawaiian Islands • Colonization of islands followed by genetic divergence sets the stage for speciation

  21. Speciation on an Archipelago 1 A few individuals of a species on the mainland reach isolated island 1. Speciation follows genetic divergence in a new habitat. 3 2 4 Later in time, a few individuals of the new species colonize nearby island 2. In this new habitat, speciation follows genetic divergence. 1 2 Speciation may also follow colonization of islands 3 and 4. And it may follow invasion of island a by genetically different descendants of the ancestral species. 1 3 2 4

  22. Hawaiian Islands • Volcanic origins, variety of habitats • Adaptive radiations: • Honeycreepers - In absence of other bird species, they radiated to fill numerous niches • Fruit flies (Drosophila) - 40% of fruit fly species are found in Hawaii

  23. Hawaiian Honeycreepers FOUNDER SPECIES

  24. Speciation without a Barrier • Sympatric speciation • Species forms within the home range of the parent species • Parapatric speciation • Neighboring populations become distinct species while maintaining contact along a common border

  25. Sympatric Speciation in African Cichlids • Studied fish species in two lakes • Species in each lake are most likely descended from single ancestor • No barriers within either lake • Some ecological separation but species in each lake breed in sympatry

  26. Speciation by Polyploidy • Change in chromosome number (3n, 4n, etc.) • Offspring with altered chromosome number cannot breed with parent population • Common mechanism of speciation in flowering plants

  27. Possible Evolution of Wheat Triticum monococcum (einkorn) Unknown species of wild wheat T. turgidum (wild emmer) T. tauschii (a wild relative) T. aestivum (one of the common bread wheats) CROSS-FERTILIZATION, FOLLOWED BY A SPONTANEOUS CHROMOSOME DOUBLING X X 14AA 14BB 14AB 28AABB 14DD 42AABBDD

  28. Parapatric Speciation Adjacent populations evolve into distinct species while maintaining contact along a common border BULLOCK’S ORIOLE BALTIMORE ORIOLE HYBRID ZONE

  29. We’re All Related • All species are related by descent • Share genetic connections that extend back in time to the prototypical cell

  30. Patterns of Change in a Lineage • Cladogenesis • Branching pattern • Lineage splits, isolated populations diverge • Anagenesis • No branching • Changes occur within single lineage • Gene flow throughout process

  31. Evolutionary Trees extinction (branch ended before present) new species branch point (a time of divergence, speciation) a new species branch point (a time of divergence, speciation) dashed line (only sketchy evidence of presumed evolutionary relationship) a single lineage a single lineage

  32. Gradual Model • Speciation model in which species emerge through many small morphological changes that accumulate over a long time period • Fits well with evidence from certain lineages in fossil record

  33. Punctuation Model • Speciation model in which most changes in morphology are compressed into brief period near onset of divergence • Supported by fossil evidence in some lineages

  34. Adaptive Radiation • Burst of divergence • Single lineage gives rise to many new species • New species fill vacant adaptive zone • Adaptive zone is “way of life”

  35. Adaptive Radiation

  36. Extinction • Irrevocable loss of a species • Mass extinctions have played a major role in evolutionary history • Fossil record shows 20 or more large-scale extinctions • Reduced diversity is followed by adaptive radiation

  37. Who Survives? • Species survival is to some extent random • Asteroids have repeatedly struck Earth destroying many lineages • Changes in global temperature favor lineages that are widely distributed

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