How barriers to gene flow arise and are maintained are key questions in evolutionary
biology. Speciation research has mainly focused on barriers that occur either before mating …

Abstract Haldane's Rule (HR), which states that 'when in the offspring of two different animal
races one sex is absent, rare, or sterile, that sex is the heterozygous (heterogametic) sex', is …

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 …

We studied the molecular phylogeny of the carabid subgenus Ohomopterus (genus
Carabus), using two mitochondrial (mt) DNA regions (16SrRNA and NADH dehydrogenase …

At the end of the last century, sexual conflict was identified as a powerful engine of
speciation, potentially even more important than ecological selection. Earlier work that …

Geographic variation and interspecific differentiation in body size (body length) were
analyzed for 15 species of the carabid subgenus Ohomopterus (genus Carabus; …

Population differentiation is a crucial step in the speciation process and is therefore a central
subject in studies of microevolution. Assessing divergence and inferring its dynamics in …

We review mathematical models that explicitly consider the dynamics of evolutionary
change driven by sexual conflict over mating rate when males are selected for increasing …

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 …

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 …