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Genetic distances between allopatric island populations of the same nominal species often exceed those between the sympatric species. It thus remained unresolved whether speciation into<jats:italic>P. nyererei</jats:italic>and<jats:italic>P. pundamilia</jats:italic>occurred once, followed by geographical range expansion and interspecific gene flow in local sympatry, or if the species pair arose repeatedly by parallel speciation. Here, we use genomic data and demographic modelling to test these alternative evolutionary scenarios. We demonstrate that gene flow plays a strong role in shaping the observed patterns of genetic similarity, including both gene flow between sympatric species and gene flow between allopatric populations, as well as recent and early gene flow. The best supported model for the origin of<jats:italic>P. pundamilia</jats:italic>and<jats:italic>P. nyererei</jats:italic>population pairs at two different islands is one where speciation happened twice, whereby the second speciation event follows shortly after introgression from an allopatric<jats:italic>P. nyererei</jats:italic>population that arose earlier. Our findings support the hypothesis that very similar species may arise repeatedly, potentially facilitated by introgressed genetic variation.</jats:p>","journal":"Molecular Ecology","year":2017,"id":36776,"datarank":2.755234195868815,"base_score":4.897839799950911,"endowment":4.897839799950911,"self_citation_contribution":0.7346759699926367,"citation_network_contribution":2.0205582258761785,"self_endowment_contribution":0.7346759699926367,"citer_contribution":2.0205582258761785,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":133,"citer_count":88,"citers_with_citation_signal":81,"citers_with_endowment":81,"datacite_reuse_total":9,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":185634,"name":"Vitor C. 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