The Midas cichlid fish from the crater lakes of Nicaragua are one of the the best known examples for sympatric speciation. They evolved from a source population into a variety of independent ...

For example, reproductive isolation is weak ... Science 326, 1704–1707 (2009). Via, S. Sympatric speciation in animals: The ugly duckling grows up. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 16, 381 ...

Another classic example of the radiation of a group on an island ... Evolution 55: 2070-2087. *Bush, G.L. 1994. Sympatric speciation in animals new wine in old bottles. TREE 9: 285-288. Clarke, B., ...

Chimpanzees, for example, show population-specific signatures ... which is a necessary precursor to speciation. Future studies that incorporate ecological, behavioral, and genetic data hold ...