A major challenge facing evolutionary biologists is to explain the diversity of life and the interplay of evolutionary and ecological forces that shape it. Islands provide the best natural laboratories to study the species level processes that initiate biological diversification. We propose to use a next-generation sequencing method (RAD-tags) in a multi-species dataset to tease the role of genetic, geological, and environmental factors in shaping the bio-diversity. We will study the evolutionary radiation of 4 herptiles that possess contrasting ecological requirements and life history traits in the Aegean, where the landscape provides both young and old, simplified and complex geologica...
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