Speciation Via Disruptive Selection on Habitat Preference: Experimental Evidence
@article{Rice1988SpeciationVD,
title={Speciation Via Disruptive Selection on Habitat Preference: Experimental Evidence},
author={William R. Rice and George William Salt},
journal={The American Naturalist},
year={1988},
volume={131},
pages={911 - 917},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:84876223}
}A repetition of Thoday and Gibson's experiments with the modification that disruptive selection is applied to a trait, habitat preference, that produces positive assortative mating as a correlated character is described.
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