It is our third week of natural and sexual selection. We will focus on ecological speciation this time. The papers we are going to discuss are listed below:

• Mayr, E. 1947. Ecological factors in speciation. Evolution 1: 263-288. [journal link]
• Bush, G. 1969. Sympatric host race formation and speciation in frugivorous flies of the genus Rhagoletis (Diptera, Tephritidae). Evolution 23: 237-251. [journal link]
• Schluter, D. 1996. Ecological speciation in postglacial fishes. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 351: 804-814. [doi link]
• Rundle, HD., P. Nosil. 2005. Ecological speciation. Ecology letters 3: 336-352. [doi link]