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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Douglas J. Futuyma. COMPETITION AMONG SPECIES Competition among species may take either of two general forms . Competition by EXPLOITATION occurs when one individual consumes a resource and makes it unavailable to others ; the competing ...
Douglas J. Futuyma. COMPETITION AMONG SPECIES Competition among species may take either of two general forms . Competition by EXPLOITATION occurs when one individual consumes a resource and makes it unavailable to others ; the competing ...
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... species A. chrysomphali that had flourished after its introduction some years earlier ( DeBach 1966 ) . Numerous studies have shown that competition exists among species of plants and of many animals in nature ; when the density of one ...
... species A. chrysomphali that had flourished after its introduction some years earlier ( DeBach 1966 ) . Numerous studies have shown that competition exists among species of plants and of many animals in nature ; when the density of one ...
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... species will decline , and the number of extinctions will increase , with the number of species in the locality ; extinction rates are assumed to be higher in small areas simply because the likelihood of extinction depends on population ...
... species will decline , and the number of extinctions will increase , with the number of species in the locality ; extinction rates are assumed to be higher in small areas simply because the likelihood of extinction depends on population ...
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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