The syngameon enigma

R Buck, L Flores-Rentería - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite their evolutionary relevance, multispecies networks or syngameons are rarely
reported in the literature. Discovering how syngameons form and how they are maintained …

Sympatric speciation by sexual conflict

S Gavrilets, D Waxman - Proceedings of the National …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
It is well established that sexual conflict can drive an endless coevolutionary chase between
the sexes potentially leading to genetic divergence of isolated populations and allopatric …

Genital lock‐and‐key as a selective agent against hybridization

T Sota, K Kubota - Evolution, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
We demonstrate experimentally that differences in genital characters impose a direct cost of
interspecific copulation on two closely related carabid species, Carabus (Ohomopterus) …

Incongruence of Mitochondrial and Nuclear Gene Trees in the Carabid Beetles Ohomopterus

T Sota, AP Vogler - Systematic biology, 2001 - academic.oup.com
We studied the molecular phylogeny of the carabid subgenus Ohomopterus (genus
Carabus), using two mitochondrial (mt) DNA regions (16SrRNA and NADH dehydrogenase …

Reproductive interference determines persistence and exclusion in species interactions

S Kishi, T Nishida, Y Tsubaki - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Reproductive interference is a negative interspecific sexual interaction that adversely affects
the fitness of males and females during reproductive process. Theoretical studies suggest …

Evolutionary history and diversity in the ball roller beetle Canthon cyanellus

J Nolasco-Soto, J González-Astorga… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
To understand the evolutionary history of species, it is necessary to know the mechanisms
for reproductive isolation, divergence-time between populations, and the relative action of …

Interspecific body size differentiation in species assemblages of the carabid subgenus Ohomopterus in Japan

T Sota, Y Takami, K Kubota, M Ujiie, R Ishikawa - Population Ecology, 2000 - Springer
Geographic variation and interspecific differentiation in body size (body length) were
analyzed for 15 species of the carabid subgenus Ohomopterus (genus Carabus; …

[HTML][HTML] A DNA barcode library for ground beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae) of Germany: The genus Bembidion Latreille, 1802 and allied taxa

MJ Raupach, K Hannig, J Moriniere, L Hendrich - ZooKeys, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
As molecular identification method, DNA barcoding based on partial cytochrome c oxidase
subunit 1 (COI) sequences has been proven to be a useful tool for species determination in …

Resource partitioning or reproductive isolation: the ecological role of body size differences among closely related species in sympatry

Y Okuzaki, Y Takami, T Sota - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Body size differences among coexisting related species are common, but the actual effect of
these differences in mitigating interspecific interactions, such as resource competition and …

Explosive radiation of the genus Schizopera on a small subterranean island in Western Australia (Copepoda: Harpacticoida): unravelling the cases of cryptic …

T Karanovic, SJB Cooper - Invertebrate Systematics, 2012 - CSIRO Publishing
A previously unsurveyed calcrete aquifer in the Yilgarn region of Western Australia revealed
an unprecedented diversity of copepods, representing 67% of that previously recorded in …