Stephen Palumbi is at the Dept of Zoology and Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
Trends Ecol Evol. 1992 Apr;7(4):114-8. doi: 10.1016/0169-5347(92)90144-Z.
The scale of population structure in many marine species is on the order of thousands to tens of thousands of kilometers. How does speciation take place in oceans that are only about this same size? Recent results suggest an important role for transient isolation, gamete ecology and molecular evolution at gamete recognition loci. These factors have long been appreciated by plant biologists, and are likely to be a fruitful area of research for marine biologists as well.
许多海洋物种的种群结构规模为数千到数万千米。在大小相当的海洋中，物种是如何形成的呢？最近的研究结果表明，暂态隔离、配子生态学和配子识别位点的分子进化起着重要作用。这些因素长期以来一直受到植物生物学家的重视，也可能成为海洋生物学家富有成效的研究领域。
