Female mate choice
Male mate choice
Cryptic female mate choice
Matthew C Kustra, Maria R Servedio, Suzanne H Alonzo, Cryptic female choice can maintain reproductive isolation, Evolution, 2025;, qpaf156, https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf156
Generic
Servedio, M. R. and Boughman, J. W. 2017. The Role of Sexual Selection in Local Adaptation and Speciation. - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 48: 85–109.
Weissing, F. J., Edelaar, P., & Van Doorn, G. S. (2011). Adaptive speciation theory: a conceptual review. Behavioral ecology and sociobiology, 65, 461-480.
Ritchie, M. G. 2007. Sexual Selection and Speciation. - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 38: 79–102.
Panhuis, T. M., Butlin, R., Zuk, M. and Tregenza, T. 2001. Sexual selection and speciation. - Trends in Ecology & Evolution 16: 364–371.
Plant
Ritchie, M. G., & Pannell, J. R. (2025). Speciation: Sexual selection also plays a role in plants. Current Biology, 35(10), R393-R395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.009
Orsucci, M., Sartori, K., Lombardi, A., Vanikiotis, T., Ouvrard, P., Wärdig, C., ... & Sicard, A. (2025). Sexual selection drives the speciation of lineages with contrasting mating systems. Current Biology, 35(10), 2406-2413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.046
Boughman, J. W., Brand, J. A., Brooks, R. C., Bonduriansky, R., & Wong, B. B. (2024). Sexual selection and speciation in the Anthropocene. Trends in ecology & evolution, 39(7), 654-665. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.02.005
Mendelson, T. C., & Safran, R. J. (2021). Speciation by sexual selection: 20 years of progress. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 36(12), 1153-1163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.09.004
[van Doorn's works]
van Doorn, G. S., Edelaar, P., & Weissing, F. J. (2009). On the origin of species by natural and sexual selection. Science, 326(5960), 1704-1707.
van Doorn, G. S., Dieckmann, U., & Weissing, F. J. (2004). Sympatric speciation by sexual selection: a critical reevaluation. The American Naturalist, 163(5), 709-725.
van Doorn, G. S., & Weissing, F. J. (2002). Ecological versus sexual selection models of sympatric speciation: a synthesis. Selection, 2(1-2), 17-40.
Ecological speciation
Budding speciation
Co-speciation
Host–parasite
Pollinator–plant
Ephemeral speciation
Rosenblum, E.B., Sarver, B.A.J., Brown, J.W. et al. Goldilocks Meets Santa Rosalia: An Ephemeral Speciation Model Explains Patterns of Diversification Across Time Scales. Evol Biol 39, 255–261 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-012-9171-x
Dynesius, M., & Jansson, R. (2014). Persistence of within-species lineages: a neglected control of speciation rates. Evolution, 68(4), 923-934.
Incipient speciation
Shafer AB, Wolf JB. Widespread evidence for incipient ecological speciation: a meta-analysis of isolation-by-ecology. Ecol Lett. 2013 Jul;16(7):940-50. doi: 10.1111/ele.12120. Epub 2013 Apr 30. PMID: 23627762.
Other topics
Alencar, L. R. V. D., & Quental, T. B. (2021). Linking population‐level and microevolutionary processes to understand speciation dynamics at the macroevolutionary scale. Ecology and Evolution, 11(11), 5828-5843.
[Reference]
Marques, D. A., Meier, J. I., & Seehausen, O. (2019). A combinatorial view on speciation and adaptive radiation. Trends in ecology & evolution, 34(6), 531-544.
Gavrilets, S. (2014). Models of speciation: where are we now?. Journal of heredit
Nosil, P., Harmon, L. J., & Seehausen, O. (2009). Ecological explanations for (incomplete) speciation. Trends in ecology & evolution, 24(3), 145-156.
Butlin, R. K., Galindo, J., & Grahame, J. W. (2008). Sympatric, parapatric or allopatric: the most important way to classify speciation?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363(1506), 2997-3007.
Rueffler, C., Van Dooren, T. J., Leimar, O., & Abrams, P. A. (2006). Disruptive selection and then what?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 21(5), 238-245.
Doebeli, M., & Dieckmann, U. (2005). Adaptive dynamics as a mathematical tool for studying the ecology of speciation processes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 18(5), 1194-1200.
Dieckmann, U., & Doebeli, M. (2004). Adaptive dynamics of speciation: sexual populations. Adaptive speciation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 76-111.
Doebeli, M., Dieckmann, U., & Hordijk, L. (2004). Adaptive dynamics of speciation: spatial structure. Adaptive speciation, 140-167.
Darwins's mystery of mystery
Plant
Tenaillon, M. I., Burban, E., Huynh, S., Wojcik, A., Thuillet, A. C., Manicacci, D., ... & Glémin, S. (2023). Crop domestication as a step toward reproductive isolation. American Journal of Botany, 110(7), e16173.
Haghighatnia, M., Machac, A., Schmickl, R., & Lafon Placette, C. (2023). Darwin's ‘mystery of mysteries’: the role of sexual selection in plant speciation. Biological Reviews, 98(6), 1928-1944.
Related keyword: pollen rejection versus female mate choice (sexual selection)
Buggs, R. J. (2022). Reconfiguring Darwin’s abominable mystery. Nature Plants, 8(3), 194-195.
Zink, R. M. (2025). Whether Darwin’s mystery of mysteries is actually mysterious depends on the species concept: A bird’s eye review. Ornithology, ukaf010.
Related keyword: biological species concept, lineage species concept
Early warning signal
Maïdie Sinitambirivoutin, Patrik Nosil, Samuel Flaxman, Jeffrey Feder, Zachariah Gompert, Vasilis Dakos, Early-warning signals of impending speciation, Evolution, Volume 77, Issue 6, June 2023, Pages 1444–1457, https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad054
[Reference]
Marques, D. A., Meier, J. I., & Seehausen, O. (2019). A combinatorial view on speciation and adaptive radiation. Trends in ecology & evolution, 34(6), 531-544.
Non-random mating
[Reference]
Maan, M. E., & Seehausen, O. (2011). Ecology, sexual selection and speciation. Ecology letters, 14(6), 591-602.