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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... prey combinations are unstable , other combinations persist for any of several reasons . Predators are often unable to find all the potential prey , some of which remain inaccessible . A prey species may survive through dispersal : the ...
... prey combinations are unstable , other combinations persist for any of several reasons . Predators are often unable to find all the potential prey , some of which remain inaccessible . A prey species may survive through dispersal : the ...
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... prey population . Selection for proficiency in predation is most intense , in fact , if the predator population is limited by scarcity of prey . Most models of predator - prey coevolution have considered one species of predator and ...
... prey population . Selection for proficiency in predation is most intense , in fact , if the predator population is limited by scarcity of prey . Most models of predator - prey coevolution have considered one species of predator and ...
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... prey species comes at the expense of handling others . Therefore the more predators a prey species must withstand , and the more prey species a predator relies upon , the more sluggish coevolution is likely to be ( Slobodkin 1974 ...
... prey species comes at the expense of handling others . Therefore the more predators a prey species must withstand , and the more prey species a predator relies upon , the more sluggish coevolution is likely to be ( Slobodkin 1974 ...
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