Many insects have helpful internal bacteria ... Reference: Van Leuven, Meister, Simon & McCutcheon. 2014. Sympatric Speciation in a Bacterial Endosymbiont Results in Two Genomes with the ...

"With this study, we offer a compelling case for sympatric evolution that will open new conversations in the debate about speciation in these ants, social insects and evolutionary biology more ...

Recently, researchers at Utah State University sequenced the genomes of more than 1,000 stick insects in an effort to better understand the process of speciation. Advertisement "Having sequenced ...

Additionally, the research will allow scientists to develop new tools to control populations of disease carrying insects and invasive species in a highly targeted fashion. "Speciation is a ...

"We think these skin chemicals are the next step in speciation," says Dr Nosil. "Even if the insects survive when placed into a different environment, the chemicals on their skin provide the next ...

At the center of the new findings is an evolutionary concept called sympatric speciation, the possibility “for a species to split into two species without any geographic separation,” Schultz says.

Titled "Factors influencing progress toward sympatric speciation," the paper appears in today's edition of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. New species more commonly occur when plants or ...