Genomic analyses inDrosophilado not support the classic allopatric model of speciation

Author:

Yusuf Leeban H.,Laetsch Dominik R.,Lohse Konrad,Ritchie Michael G.

Abstract

AbstractThe allopatric model of speciation has dominated our understanding of speciation biology and biogeography since the Modern Synthesis. It is uncontroversial because the cessation of gene flow during allopatry will allow reproductive isolation to readily emerge as a by-product of evolutionary divergence. However, whether allopatric speciation is common has rarely been systematically tested across a continuum of closely-related species. Here, we fit a range of demographic models of evolutionary divergence to whole-genome sequence data from 93 pairs ofDrosophilaspecies to infer speciation histories and levels of post-divergence gene flow. We find that speciation with gene flow is common, even between currently allopatric pairs of species. Estimates of historical gene flow are not predicted by current range overlap, nor is there convincing support that secondary contact commonly leads to the cessation of gene flow as predicted by models of reinforcement. Instead, our analyses suggest that most speciation processes involve some long-term gene flow perhaps due to repeated cycles of allopatry and contact, without requiring an extensive allopatric phase.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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