Evolutionary BiologySinauer Associates, 1986 - 600 pagine Covers the genetic, developmental, and ecological mechanisms of evolutionary change, the major features of evolutionary history as revealed by phylogenetic and paleontological studies, and material on adaptation, molecular evolution, co-evolution, and human evolution. |
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... families Number of families Number of families pe P M 10 Families creased during the early Paleozoic. Geologic time ( 106 yrs ). The History of Biological Diversity 349.
... families Number of families Number of families pe P M 10 Families creased during the early Paleozoic. Geologic time ( 106 yrs ). The History of Biological Diversity 349.
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... families of transposable elements in a species may account for 10 percent or more of the total DNA . Drosophila melanogaster has at least 30 families of transposable elements that in aggregate make up about half the middle repetitive ...
... families of transposable elements in a species may account for 10 percent or more of the total DNA . Drosophila melanogaster has at least 30 families of transposable elements that in aggregate make up about half the middle repetitive ...
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... FAMILIES Possibly the most remarkable feature of gene families is that even those consisting of many thousands of members are highly homogeneous in nucleotide sequence . For example , about 400 copies of a sequence carrying the 18S rRNA ...
... FAMILIES Possibly the most remarkable feature of gene families is that even those consisting of many thousands of members are highly homogeneous in nucleotide sequence . For example , about 400 copies of a sequence carrying the 18S rRNA ...
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CONCEPTIONS AND MISCONCEPTIONS | 7 |
EVOLUTION SINCE THE SYNTHESIS | 13 |
ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT | 19 |
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adaptive adaptive radiation allele frequency allozyme Amer amino acid ancestor animals average behavior biological birds bristle number caused cells Chapter characters chromosome cladistic coefficient coevolution competition copies correlated deleterious developmental differentiation distribution divergence Dobzhansky Drosophila melanogaster ecological effect environment environmental enzyme equilibrium evidence evolutionary change evolved example extinction rate factors favor females Figure fitness fossil record function Futuyma gametes gene conversion gene flow gene frequencies genetic drift genetic variation genome genotypes geographic groups habitats heritability heterozygotes heterozygous higher taxa homozygotes homozygous host human hybrid inbreeding increase individual insects interactions Lewontin linkage disequilibrium loci locus males mammals mating mechanisms molecular morphological mutation natural selection nucleotide occur offspring organisms pairs parasites pattern phenotype phylogenetic phylogeny plants polymorphism predators prey proteins pseudogenes random recombination relative reproductive isolation sequence sexual similar speciation structure survival sympatric taxon theory tion trait transposable elements variable variance