New review on adaptive radiation

A new paper, titled “Why Do Some Lineages Radiate While Others Do Not? Perspectives for Future Research on Adaptive Radiations”, with several authors from important academic institutions across the globe, has just been published in the journal Cold Spring Harbor Perspective in Biology with Carmelo as a co-author.

The paper deals with our current understanding of adaptive radiations, systems with multiple closely related species and broad phenotypic diversity, which have been particularly fruitful for teasing apart the factors that drive and constrain diversification.

The paper highlights a number of understudied components of the environment and of lineages themselves, which may help further our understanding of speciation and adaptive radiations. It also outlines some substantial remaining challenges to achieving a detailed understanding of adaptation, speciation, and the role of ecology in these processes.