• DOI:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb03653.x
Corpus ID: 21054233

REINFORCEMENT: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON AN OLD CONTROVERSY

@article{Hostert1997REINFORCEMENTAN,
  title={REINFORCEMENT: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON AN OLD CONTROVERSY},
  author={Ellen E Hostert},
  journal={Evolution},
  year={1997},
  volume={51}
}

Ellen E Hostert

Published 1997

Biology, Medicine

Evolution

A critical component of the reinforcement model, incomplete postzygotic reproductive isolation, has been overlooked in the many selection experiments designed to test this model. Many field observations are consistent with the reinforcement model, but theoretical work predicts that reinforcement should only work when nearly complete postzygotic reproductive isolation has developed. The experiments described here used four levels of postzygotic reproductive isolation: complete, strong, moderate… CONTINUE READING

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