When two organisms typically do not interbreed with one another, they are considered different species. But what are the reproductive barriers that isolate one population from another? Hear the ...

There has been a long-standing emphasis in speciation research on describing conditions that may facilitate the build-up of premating isolation when diverging populations are undergoing gene flow. The ...

Explosive amounts of data and the strains on limited financial resources have prompted corporations and governmental agencies alike to explore joint tenancy in the cloud for storing, processing and ...

Experiments were designed to clarify the role of olfactory stimuli in sexual isolation between the closely related and allopatric mice, Peromyscus maniculatus rufinus and P. polionotus leucocephalus.

Social isolation in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, leads to sleep loss, which in turn leads to cellular stress and the activation of a defense mechanism called the unfolded protein response.

Wolbachia is a widespread group of intracellular bacteria commonly found in arthropods. In many insect species, Wolbachia induce a cytoplasmic mating incompatibility (CI). If different Wolbachia ...