Photo: The red alga Amansia glomerata: an ideal system for investigating speciation in Hawaiʻi.
Photo credit: Bert Weeks

Lead author, Dr. Lauric Reynes, with Dr. Alison Sherwood and Dr. James Fumo, recently published their study on how the geological history of the Hawaiian Archipelago has shaped the evolution of reproductive barriers and genomic divergence in Hawaiian red algae. Their work helps improve our understanding of the processes contributing to the origin of marine biodiversity in Hawaiʻi.

Read the Heredity article here: “Reproductive isolation and differential introgression shape the genomic landscape of the red alga Amansia glomerata in the Hawaiian Archipelago”

To make this research accessible to a broader audience, they also wrote a Behind the Paper article for Springer Nature Communities, which is available here: “What Hawaiian Seaweeds Can Teach Us About Speciation”

This study was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.