The evolution of barriers to gene exchange

Project Information

BARRIERS

Grant agreement ID: 693030

DOI 10.3030/693030

Project closed

EC signature date 31 May 2016

Start date 1 September 2016

End date 28 February 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 499 926,64

EU contribution € 2 499 926,64

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (20)

Genetic variation for adaptive traits isassociated with polymorphic inversions inLittorina saxatilis

Author(s): Eva L. Koch, Hernán E. Morales, Jenny Larsson, Anja M. Westram, Rui Faria, Alan R. Lemmon, E. Moriarty Lemmon, Kerstin Johannesson, Roger K. Butlin
Published in: Evolution Letters, 2021, ISSN 2056-3744
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/evl3.227

Homage to Felsenstein 1981, or why are there so few/many species?

Author(s): Butlin, R.K. Servedio, M.R. Smadja, C.M. Bank, C. Barton, N.H. Flaxman, S.M. Giraud, T. Hopkins, R. Larson, E.L. Maan, M.E. Meier, J. Merrill, R. Noor, M.A.F. Ortiz-Barrientos, D. Qvarnström, A.
Published in: Evolution, 2021, ISSN 0014-3820
Publisher: Society for the Study of Evolution
DOI: 10.1111/evo.14235

The evolution of strong reproductive isolation between sympatric intertidal snails

Author(s): Sean Stankowski, Anja M. Westram, Zuzanna B. Zagrodzka, Isobel Eyres, Thomas Broquet, Kerstin Johannesson, Roger K. Butlin
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 375/1806, 2020, Page(s) 20190545, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0545

Using replicate hybrid zones to understand the genomic basisof adaptive divergence

Author(s): Anja M. Westram, Rui Faria, Kerstin Johannesson, Roger Butlin
Published in: Molecular Ecology, 2021, ISSN 1365-294X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15861

Multidimensional divergent selection, local adaptation, and speciation

Author(s): Nathan J. White, Roger K. Butlin
Published in: Evolution, 2021, ISSN 1558-5646
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/evo.14312

Assortative mating, sexual selection, and their consequences for gene flow in Littorina

Author(s): Samuel Perini, Marina Rafajlović, Anja M. Westram, Kerstin Johannesson, Roger K. Butlin
Published in: Evolution, Issue 74/7, 2020, Page(s) 1482-1497, ISSN 0014-3820
Publisher: Society for the Study of Evolution
DOI: 10.1111/evo.14027

Hybridization patterns between two marine snails, Littorina fabalis and L. obtusata

Author(s): Diana Costa, Graciela Sotelo, Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou, João Carvalho, Roger Butlin, Johan Hollander, Rui Faria
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, Issue 10/3, 2020, Page(s) 1158-1179, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5943

Very short mountings are enough for sperm transfer in Littorina saxatilis

Author(s): Perini S, Butlin R, Westram AM, Johannesson K
Published in: Journal of Molluscan Studies, 2022, ISSN 0260-1230
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/mollus/eyab049

Towards the completion of speciation: the evolution of reproductive isolation beyond the first barriers

Author(s): Jonna Kulmuni, Roger K. Butlin, Kay Lucek, Vincent Savolainen, Anja Marie Westram
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 375/1806, 2020, Page(s) 20190528, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0528

Science policies: How should science funding be allocated? An evolutionary biologists’ perspective

Author(s): Stephanie Meirmans, Roger K. Butlin, Anne Charmantier, Jan Engelstädter, Astrid T. Groot, Kayla C. King, Hanna Kokko, Jane M. Reid, Maurine Neiman
Published in: Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Issue 32/8, 2019, Page(s) 754-768, ISSN 1010-061X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13497

Coupling, Reinforcement, and Speciation

Author(s): Roger K. Butlin, Carole M. Smadja
Published in: The American Naturalist, Issue 191/2, 2018, Page(s) 155-172, ISSN 0003-0147
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/695136

Multiple chromosomal rearrangements in a hybrid zone between Littorina saxatilis ecotypes

Author(s): Rui Faria, Pragya Chaube, Hernán E. Morales, Tomas Larsson, Alan R. Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Marina Rafajlović, Marina Panova, Mark Ravinet, Kerstin Johannesson, Anja M. Westram, Roger K. Butlin
Published in: Molecular Ecology, Issue 28, 2018, Page(s) 1375-1393, ISSN 0962-1083
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.14972

Clines on the seashore: The genomic architecture underlying rapid divergence in the face of gene flow

Author(s): Anja M. Westram, Marina Rafajlović, Pragya Chaube, Rui Faria, Tomas Larsson, Marina Panova, Mark Ravinet, Anders Blomberg, Bernhard Mehlig, Kerstin Johannesson, Roger Butlin
Published in: Evolution Letters, Issue 2/4, 2018, Page(s) 297-309, ISSN 2056-3744
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/evl3.74

Are assortative mating and genital divergence driven by reinforcement?

Author(s): Johan Hollander, Mauricio Montaño-Rendón, Giuseppe Bianco, Xi Yang, Anja M. Westram, Ludovic Duvaux, David G. Reid, Roger K. Butlin
Published in: Evolution Letters, Issue 2/6, 2018, Page(s) 557-566, ISSN 2056-3744
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/evl3.85

Evolving Inversions

Author(s): Rui Faria, Kerstin Johannesson, Roger K. Butlin, Anja M. Westram
Published in: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Issue 34/3, 2019, Page(s) 239-248, ISSN 0169-5347
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2018.12.005

Is it time to abandon the biological species concept? No

Author(s): Roger K Butlin, Sean Stankowski
Published in: National Science Review, Issue 7/8, 2020, Page(s) 1400-1401, ISSN 2053-714X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaa109

A developmentally descriptive method for quantifying shape in gastropod shells

Author(s): J. Larsson, A. M. Westram, S. Bengmark, T. Lundh, R. K. Butlin
Published in: Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Issue 17/163, 2020, Page(s) 20190721, ISSN 1742-5689
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2019.0721

Is embryo abortion a post‐zygotic barrier to gene flow between Littorina ecotypes?

Author(s): Kerstin Johannesson, Zuzanna Zagrodzka, Rui Faria, Anja Marie Westram, Roger K. Butlin
Published in: Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Issue 33/3, 2019, Page(s) 342-351, ISSN 1010-061X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13570

Genomic architecture of parallel ecological divergence: Beyond a single environmental contrast

Author(s): Hernán E. Morales, Rui Faria, Kerstin Johannesson, Tomas Larsson, Marina Panova, Anja M. Westram, Roger K. Butlin
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 5/12, 2019, Page(s) eaav9963, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav9963

Deleterious mutation accumulation and the long-term fate of chromosomal inversions

Author(s): Emma L. Berdan, Alexandre Blanckaert, Roger K. Butlin, Claudia Bank
Published in: PLOS Genetics, Issue 17/3, 2021, Page(s) e1009411, ISSN 1553-7390
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009411

Other (1)

Snails evolving into new species on the sea shore

Author(s): Roger Butlin, Kerstin Johannesson, Sean Stankowski, Francesca Raffini
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Science Animated