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International Journal of Ecology
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 435357, 15 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/435357
Ecological Divergence and the Origins of Intrinsic Postmating Isolation with Gene Flow
1Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada
2Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
3Institute for Advanced Study, Wissenschaftskolleg, 14193 Berlin, Germany
4Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Received 25 April 2011; Revised 14 June 2011; Accepted 21 June 2011
Academic Editor: Zachariah Gompert
Copyright © 2011 Aneil F. Agrawal et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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