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Understanding factors generating biodiversity are critical in a world where continued anthropogenic disturbances threaten the survival of an increasing number of species. Ancient lakes provide ideal systems for the study of such factors as early invading species have a high pote…

Closely related taxa frequently exist in sympatry before the evolution of robust reproductive barriers, which can lead to substantial gene flow. Post-divergence gene flow can promote several disparate trajectories of divergence ranging from the collapse of the taxa to the streng…