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 13
... present features of organisms cannot be understood solely in terms of existing genetic variations and selection pressures . Rather , present features are in part determined by the devel- opmental processes that translate genotypes into ...
... present features of organisms cannot be understood solely in terms of existing genetic variations and selection pressures . Rather , present features are in part determined by the devel- opmental processes that translate genotypes into ...
Pagina 129
... present one generation earlier , and these in turn must have been sampled from an even larger number of the genes that were present in the distant past . Therefore , if we now go forward rather than backward in time , we see that ...
... present one generation earlier , and these in turn must have been sampled from an even larger number of the genes that were present in the distant past . Therefore , if we now go forward rather than backward in time , we see that ...
Pagina 343
... present . Whatever genetic or ecological equilibria may have ex- isted before the Pleistocene were probably destabilized by its vicissitudes ; there has not been enough time since then for genetic and ecological equilibria to be fully ...
... present . Whatever genetic or ecological equilibria may have ex- isted before the Pleistocene were probably destabilized by its vicissitudes ; there has not been enough time since then for genetic and ecological equilibria to be fully ...
Sommario
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