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Does the speciation clock tick more slowly in the absence of heteromorphic sex chromosomes?
Author(s) -
Phillips Barret C.,
Edmands Suzanne
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
bioessays
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.175
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1521-1878
pISSN - 0265-9247
DOI - 10.1002/bies.201100164
Subject(s) - biology , genetic algorithm , evolutionary biology , tick , genetics , zoology , ecology
Squamates may be an attractive group in which to study the influence of sex chromosomes on speciation rates because of the repeated evolution of heterogamety (both XY and ZW), as well as an apparently large number of taxa with environmental sex‐determination.