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_id: '4284'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: The evolutionary processes responsible for adaptation and speciation on islands
    differ in several ways from those on the mainland. Most attention has been given
    to the random genetic drift that arises when a population is founded from just
    a few colonizing genomes. Theoretical obstacles to ‘founder effect speciation’
    are discussed, together with recent proposals for avoiding them. It is argued
    that although certain kinds of epistasis can facilitate the evolution of strong
    reproductive isolation, this favours divergence by selection as much as by random
    drift.
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author:
- first_name: Nicholas H
  full_name: Barton, Nicholas H
  id: 4880FE40-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Barton
  orcid: 0000-0002-8548-5240
citation:
  ama: 'Barton NH. Natural selection and random genetic drift as causes of evolution
    on islands. In: <i>Evolution on Islands</i>. Oxford University Press; 1997:102-123.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1996.0073">10.1098/rstb.1996.0073</a>'
  apa: Barton, N. H. (1997). Natural selection and random genetic drift as causes
    of evolution on islands. In <i>Evolution on islands</i> (pp. 102–123). Oxford
    University Press. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1996.0073">https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1996.0073</a>
  chicago: Barton, Nicholas H. “Natural Selection and Random Genetic Drift as Causes
    of Evolution on Islands.” In <i>Evolution on Islands</i>, 102–23. Oxford University
    Press, 1997. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1996.0073">https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1996.0073</a>.
  ieee: N. H. Barton, “Natural selection and random genetic drift as causes of evolution
    on islands,” in <i>Evolution on islands</i>, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp.
    102–123.
  ista: 'Barton NH. 1997.Natural selection and random genetic drift as causes of evolution
    on islands. In: Evolution on islands. , 102–123.'
  mla: Barton, Nicholas H. “Natural Selection and Random Genetic Drift as Causes of
    Evolution on Islands.” <i>Evolution on Islands</i>, Oxford University Press, 1997,
    pp. 102–23, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1996.0073">10.1098/rstb.1996.0073</a>.
  short: N.H. Barton, in:, Evolution on Islands, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp.
    102–123.
date_created: 2018-12-11T12:08:02Z
date_published: 1997-11-27T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-08-18T13:04:36Z
day: '27'
doi: 10.1098/rstb.1996.0073
extern: '1'
external_id:
  pmid:
  - '8693020'
language:
- iso: eng
month: '11'
oa_version: None
page: 102 - 123
pmid: 1
publication: Evolution on islands
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9780198501718'
publication_status: published
publisher: Oxford University Press
publist_id: '1800'
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Natural selection and random genetic drift as causes of evolution on islands
type: book_chapter
user_id: ea97e931-d5af-11eb-85d4-e6957dddbf17
year: '1997'
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