The what and why of research on reinforcement

PLoS Biol. 2004 Dec;2(12):e420. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020420.

Abstract

Reinforcement - a process that helps prevent interbreeding between hybridising populations - is an important and little understood mechanism driving the completion of speciation

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Biological / genetics*
  • Animals
  • Biodiversity*
  • Biological Evolution*
  • Drosophila
  • Female
  • Genetics, Population
  • Male
  • Models, Biological
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Population Dynamics*
  • Reinforcement, Psychology*
  • Selection, Genetic
  • Sexual Behavior, Animal*
  • Species Specificity