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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Pagina 124
... lower survival or reproduction ( i.e. , when they cause lower fitness ) , they will be eliminated more rapidly from an inbred than from an outbred population because inbreeding exposes such alleles in homozygous form . Thus the ...
... lower survival or reproduction ( i.e. , when they cause lower fitness ) , they will be eliminated more rapidly from an inbred than from an outbred population because inbreeding exposes such alleles in homozygous form . Thus the ...
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... lower the effective population size is an unbalanced sex ratio . If , for example , males guard harems of females against other males , the few males that reproduce contribute disproportionately to subsequent generations , so the rate ...
... lower the effective population size is an unbalanced sex ratio . If , for example , males guard harems of females against other males , the few males that reproduce contribute disproportionately to subsequent generations , so the rate ...
Pagina 265
... lower , both because the rabbits evolved resistance and because the virus had evolved lower virulence ( Fenner 1965 , May and Anderson 1983 ) . Because the virus is spread by mosquitoes that feed only on living rabbits , the chance of ...
... lower , both because the rabbits evolved resistance and because the virus had evolved lower virulence ( Fenner 1965 , May and Anderson 1983 ) . Because the virus is spread by mosquitoes that feed only on living rabbits , the chance of ...
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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 amino acid ancestor average behavior biological birds bristle cells Chapter characters chromosome coefficient coevolution common competition copies correlated deleterious developmental differentiation distribution divergence Drosophila melanogaster ecological effect environment environmental enzyme equilibrium evidence evolution evolutionary change evolved example factors favor females Figure fitness fossil record function Futuyma gametes gene conversion gene family gene flow gene frequencies genetic drift genetic variation genome genotypes geographic groups heritability heterozygotes heterozygous higher taxa homologous homozygotes homozygous host human hybrid inbreeding increase individual insects interactions Lewontin linkage disequilibrium loci locus males mammals mating mean mechanisms molecular morphological mutation natural selection neoteny nucleotide occur offspring organisms pairs parasites pattern phenotypic phylogenetic phylogeny plants polymorphism population predators prey proteins pseudogenes random recombination related species relative reproductive isolation segments sexual similar speciation structure survival sympatric theory tion traits transposable elements variable variance vertebrates