title: Advances in Ecological Speciation: an integrative approach.
abstract: The role of natural selection in promoting reproductive isolation has received substantial renewed interest within the last two decades. As a consequence, the study of ecological speciation has become an extremely productive research area in modern evolutionary biology. Recent innovations in sequencing technologies offer an unprecedented opportunity to study the mechanisms involved in ecological speciation. Genome scans provide significant insights but have some important limitations; efforts are needed to integrate them with other approaches to make full use of the sequencing data deluge. An international conference 'Advances in Ecological Speciation' organized by the University of Porto (Portugal) aimed to review current progress in ecological speciation. Using some of the examples presented at the conference, we highlight the benefits of integrating ecological and genomic data and discuss different mechanisms of parallel evolution. Finally, future avenues of research are suggested to advance our knowledge concerning the role of natural selection in the establishment of reproductive isolation during ecological speciation.
authors.affiliation: CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBio, Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto. Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal; IBE, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra. PRBB, Av. Doctor Aiguader N88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Faria
authors.forename: Sebastien
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Renaut
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Galindo
authors.forename: Catarina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pinho
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Melo-Ferreira
authors.forename: Martim
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Melo
authors.forename: Felicity
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Salzburger
authors.forename: Dolph
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schluter
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Butlin
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods; D049810:Genetic Speciation; D023281:Genomics; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci; D012641:Selection, Genetic
keywords: adaptive evolution; ecology; genome scan; natural selection; parallel evolution; reproductive isolation