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In December 2004, the National Academy of Sciences sponsored a colloquium on "Systematics and the Origin of Species" to celebrate Ernst Mayrrs"s 100th anniversary and to explore current knowledge concerning the origin of species. In 1942, Ernst Mayr, one of the twentieth centuryrs"s greatest scientists, published Systematics and the Origin of Species, a seminal book of the modern theory of evolution, where he advanced the significance of population variation in the understanding of evolutionary process and the origin of new species. Mayr formulated the transition from Linnaeusrs"s static species concept to the dynamic species concept of the modern theory of evolution and emphasized the species as a community of populations, the role of reproductive isolation, and the ecological interactions between species. In addition to a preceding essay by Edward O. Wilson, this book includes the 16 papers presented by distinguished evolutionists at the colloquium. The papers are organized into sections covering the origins of species barriers, the processes of species divergence, the nature of species, the meaning of "species," and genomic approaches for understanding diversity and speciation.

Preface

v

Introductory Essay: Systematics and the Future of Biology

1

(4)

Edward O. Wilson

PART I: THE ORIGINS OF SPECIES BARRIERS

5

(86)

The Genetic Basis of Reproductive Isolation: Insights from Drosophila

9

(15)

H. Allen Orr

Inter-Locus Antagonistic Coevolution as an Engine of Speciation: Assessment with Hemiclonal Analysis

24

(22)

William R. Rice

Jodell E. Linder

Urban Friberg

Timothy A. Lew

Edward H. Morrow

Andrew D. Stewart

Chromosome Speciation: Humans, Drosophila, and Mosquitoes

46

(23)

Francisco J. Ayala

Mario Coluzzi

Developmental Plasticity and the Origin of Species Differences

69

(22)

Mary Jane West-Eberhard

PART II: DISCERNING RECENT DIVERGENCE

91

(110)

Speciation in Birds: Genes, Geography, and Sexual Selection

95

(25)

Scott V. Edwards

Sarah B. Kingan

Jennifer D. Calkins

Christopher N. Balakrishnan

W. Bryan Jennings

Willie J. Swanson

Michael D. Sorenson

Critical Review of Host Specificity and Its Coevolutionary Implications in the Fig/Fig-Wasp Mutualism

120

(23)

Carlos A. Machado

Nancy Robbins

M. Thomas

P. Gilbert

Edward Allen Herre

Evolutionary Animation: How Do Molecular Phylogenies Compare to Mayr's Reconstruction of Speciation Patterns in the Sea?

143

(19)

Stephen R. Palumbi

H. A. Lessios

Mayr, Dobzhansky, and Bush and the Complexities of Sympatric Speciation in Rhagoletis

162

(20)

Jeffrey L. Feder

Xianfa Xie

Juan Rull

Sebastian Velez

Andrew Forbes

Brian Leung

Hattie Dambroski

Kenneth E. Filchak

Martin Aluja

On the Origin of Lake Malawi Cichlid Species: A Population Genetic Analysis of Divergence

182

(19)

Yong-Jin Won

Arjun Sivasundar

Yong Wang

Jody Hey

PART III: THE NATURE AND THE MEANING OF ``SPECIES''

201

(64)

A Multidimensional Approach for Detecting Species Patterns in Malagasy Vertebrates

203

(26)

Anne D. Yoder

Link E. Olson

Carol Hanley

Kellie L. Heckman

Rodin Rasoloarison

Amy L. Russell

Julie Ranivo

Voahangy Soarimalala

K. Praveen Karanth

Achille P. Raselimanana

Steven M. Goodman

Examining Bacterial Species Under the Specter of Gene Transfer and Exchange

229

(14)

Howard Ochman

Emmanuelle Lerat

Vincent Daubin

Ernst Mayr and the Modern Concept of Species

243

(22)

Kevin de Queiroz

PART IV: GENOMIC APPROACHES AND NEW INSIGHTS ON DIVERSITY

265

(86)

Decoding the Genomic Tree of Life

267

(19)

Anne B. Simonson

Jacqueline A. Servin

Ryan G. Skophammer

Craig W. Herbold

Maria C. Rivera

James A. Lake

Prospects for Identifying Functional Variation Across the Genome

286

(21)

Stuart J. Macdonald

Anthony D. Long

Genetics and Genomics of Drosophila Mating Behavior

307

(25)

Trudy F. C. Mackay

Stefanie L. Heinsohn

Richard F. Lyman

Amanda J. Moehring

Theodore J. Morgan

Stephanie M. Rollmann

Genomes, Phylogeny, and Evolutionary Systems Biology

332

(19)

Monica Medina

Index

351

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