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Nature 444, E12-E13 (7 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/nature05419; Published online 6 December 2006
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Evolutionary Biology: Evidence for sympatric speciation?
U. K. Schliewen1, T. D. Kocher2, K. R. McKaye3, O. Seehausen4,5 & D. Tautz6
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Arising from: M. Barluenga, K. N. Stölting, W. Salzburger, M. Muschick & A. Meyer Nature 439, 719–723 (2006); Barluenga et al. reply
Sympatric speciation is difficult to demonstrate in nature and remains a hotly debated issue. Barluenga et al.1 present a case of putative sympatric speciation for two cichlid species in the Nicaraguan crater lake Apoyo, but they overlook or reinterpret some key published information on the system. Although sympatric speciation is possible in theory2, 3, we show here that, when this information is taken into account, the results of Barluenga et al.1 do not provide conclusive evidence for sympatric speciation: this is because the null hypothesis of multiple invasion with introgression cannot be rejected.
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Evolutionary Biology Evidence for sympatric speciation? (Reply)Nature Brief Communication (07 Dec 2006)
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