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abstract:
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  text: 'Marine environments are inhabited by a broad representation of the tree of
    life, yet our understanding of speciation in marine ecosystems is extremely limited
    compared with terrestrial and freshwater environments. Developing a more comprehensive
    picture of speciation in marine environments requires that we ''dive under the
    surface'' by studying a wider range of taxa and ecosystems is necessary for a
    more comprehensive picture of speciation. Although studying marine evolutionary
    processes is often challenging, recent technological advances in different fields,
    from maritime engineering to genomics, are making it increasingly possible to
    study speciation of marine life forms across diverse ecosystems and taxa. Motivated
    by recent research in the field, including the 14 contributions in this issue,
    we highlight and discuss six axes of research that we think will deepen our understanding
    of speciation in the marine realm: (a) study a broader range of marine environments
    and organisms; (b) identify the reproductive barriers driving speciation between
    marine taxa; (c) understand the role of different genomic architectures underlying
    reproductive isolation; (d) infer the evolutionary history of divergence using
    model‐based approaches; (e) study patterns of hybridization and introgression
    between marine taxa; and (f) implement highly interdisciplinary, collaborative
    research programmes. In outlining these goals, we hope to inspire researchers
    to continue filling this critical knowledge gap surrounding the origins of marine
    biodiversity.'
acknowledgement: "We would like to thank all the participants in the speciation symposium
  of the Marine Evolution Conference in Sweden for the interesting discussions and
  to all the contributors to this special\r\nissue. We thank Nicolas Bierne and Wolf
  Blanckenhorn (reviewer and editor, respectively) for valuable suggestions during
  the revision of the manuscript, and Roger K. Butlin and Anja M. Westram for very
  helpful comments on a previous draft. We would also like to thank Wolf Blanckenhorn
  and Nicola Cook, the Editor in Chief and the Managing Editor of the Journal of Evolutionary
  Biology, respectively, for the encouragement and support in putting together this
  special issue, and to all reviewers involved. RF was financed by the European Union's
  Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie
  Grant Agreement Number 706376 and is currently financed by the FEDER Funds through
  the Operational Competitiveness Factors Program COMPETE and by National Funds through
  the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) within the scope of the project
  ‘Hybrabbid' (PTDC/BIA-EVL/30628/2017-POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030628). KJ was funded by
  the Swedish\r\nResearch Council, VR. SS was supported by NERC and ERC funding awarded
  to Roger K. Butlin."
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author:
- first_name: Rui
  full_name: Faria, Rui
  last_name: Faria
- first_name: Kerstin
  full_name: Johannesson, Kerstin
  last_name: Johannesson
- first_name: Sean
  full_name: Stankowski, Sean
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  last_name: Stankowski
citation:
  ama: 'Faria R, Johannesson K, Stankowski S. Speciation in marine environments: Diving
    under the surface. <i>Journal of Evolutionary Biology</i>. 2021;34(1):4-15. doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13756">10.1111/jeb.13756</a>'
  apa: 'Faria, R., Johannesson, K., &#38; Stankowski, S. (2021). Speciation in marine
    environments: Diving under the surface. <i>Journal of Evolutionary Biology</i>.
    Wiley. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13756">https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13756</a>'
  chicago: 'Faria, Rui, Kerstin Johannesson, and Sean Stankowski. “Speciation in Marine
    Environments: Diving under the Surface.” <i>Journal of Evolutionary Biology</i>.
    Wiley, 2021. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13756">https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13756</a>.'
  ieee: 'R. Faria, K. Johannesson, and S. Stankowski, “Speciation in marine environments:
    Diving under the surface,” <i>Journal of Evolutionary Biology</i>, vol. 34, no.
    1. Wiley, pp. 4–15, 2021.'
  ista: 'Faria R, Johannesson K, Stankowski S. 2021. Speciation in marine environments:
    Diving under the surface. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 34(1), 4–15.'
  mla: 'Faria, Rui, et al. “Speciation in Marine Environments: Diving under the Surface.”
    <i>Journal of Evolutionary Biology</i>, vol. 34, no. 1, Wiley, 2021, pp. 4–15,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13756">10.1111/jeb.13756</a>.'
  short: R. Faria, K. Johannesson, S. Stankowski, Journal of Evolutionary Biology
    34 (2021) 4–15.
date_created: 2021-02-07T23:01:13Z
date_published: 2021-01-18T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-07-10T12:01:37Z
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