• DOI:10.1002/bies.20745
Corpus ID: 34860328

The reality and importance of founder speciation in evolution.

@article{Templeton2008TheRA,
  title={The reality and importance of founder speciation in evolution.},
  author={A. Templeton},
  journal={BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology},
  year={2008},
  volume={30 5},
  pages={
          470-9
        }
}

• A. Templeton
• Published 2008
• Biology, Medicine
• BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology

A founder event occurs when a new population is established from a small number of individuals drawn from a large ancestral population. Mayr proposed that genetic drift in an isolated founder population could alter the selective forces in an epistatic system, an observation supported by recent studies. Carson argued that a period of relaxed selection could occur when a founder population is in an open ecological niche, allowing rapid population growth after the founder event. Selectable genetic… Expand

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