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Acknowledgments

We wish to thank Benedikt Hallgrimsson and Kathy Willmore for the invitation to guest edit this volume on speciation, as well as the help with the review and editorial process. We would also wish to thank the authors that enthusiastically accepted our invitation and submitted their papers. Francesco Santini was supported by NSF-DEB-0842397.

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  1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, 610 Charles Young Dr. South, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

    Francesco Santini

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46566, USA

    Maria Pia Miglietta

  3. Department of Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA

    Anuschka Faucci

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Santini, F., Miglietta, M.P. & Faucci, A. Speciation: Where Are We Now? An Introduction to a Special Issue on Speciation. Evol Biol 39, 141–147 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-012-9177-4

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