Sean Stankowski

The paper describes homoploid hybrid speciation in a beetle species complex with no obvious phenotypic or ecological differences, showing hybrid lineage origins from historical admixture and supporting an ancient origin.

This study shows that hybrid wood ants outperform their parent species in warming climates and have expanded their range northward due to climate change.

The paper analyzes replicate flower color hybrid zones in Antirrhinum to identify loci associated with gene flow barriers using haplotagging, FST scans, and genealogical methods.

The paper examines flower colour clines in a hybrid zone of Antirrhinum majus, finding that long-distance dispersal, not linkage disequilibrium, shapes the stepped cline patterns.

The paper integrates top-down and bottom-up approaches to study speciation in a monkeyflower hybrid zone, finding that reproductive isolation involves widespread genomic barriers and polygenic traits.

The paper uses geographic cline analysis to study genome-wide divergence in Mimulus aurantiacus ecotypes, finding that outlier loci are scattered and linked to pollinator-mediated divergence.