Assortative mating may have facilitated rapid evolution of locally adaptive phenologies during a biological invasion
María José Gómez Quijano, Mia N. Akbar, Emily Crowson, Robert I. Colautti
The paper investigates how assortative mating influenced the rapid evolution of flowering phenology in Lythrum salicaria during its invasion of eastern North America.
bioRxiv · Oct 9, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology