Review Mitonuclear Ecology - Oxford Academic
... genomes. Early in eukaryote evolution, most mitochondrial genes were lost or transferred to the nucleus, but a core set of genes that code exclusively for products associated with the electron transport system remained in the mitochondrion. The products of these mitochondrial genes work in intimate ...
... genomes. Early in eukaryote evolution, most mitochondrial genes were lost or transferred to the nucleus, but a core set of genes that code exclusively for products associated with the electron transport system remained in the mitochondrion. The products of these mitochondrial genes work in intimate ...
Evolution
... observations and data and attempts to explain and integrate a great variety of phenomena • Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection integrates diverse areas of biological study and stimulates many new research questions • Ongoing research adds to our understanding of evolution Copyright © 2 ...
... observations and data and attempts to explain and integrate a great variety of phenomena • Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection integrates diverse areas of biological study and stimulates many new research questions • Ongoing research adds to our understanding of evolution Copyright © 2 ...
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science graphing genes, cells
... Adaptive versus Epigenetic Landscape. A Visual Chapter in the History of Evolution and Development ...
... Adaptive versus Epigenetic Landscape. A Visual Chapter in the History of Evolution and Development ...
Negative frequency-dependent selection is frequently confounding
... advantage over the previously common resident phenotype, regardless of frequency of the novel phenotype in the population immediately following the mass-migration event. The evolutionary dynamics occurring in this framework do not occur because of rare advantage and, in most cases, will not result i ...
... advantage over the previously common resident phenotype, regardless of frequency of the novel phenotype in the population immediately following the mass-migration event. The evolutionary dynamics occurring in this framework do not occur because of rare advantage and, in most cases, will not result i ...
Aalborg Universitet The reason why profitable firms do not necessarily grow
... low) values of coupled characteristics. This means that when selection acts directly on one characteristic, it also influences the population mean of more or less closely coupled characteristics. The elements of the phenotypic covariance matrix can be zero, positive, or negative. By combining the tw ...
... low) values of coupled characteristics. This means that when selection acts directly on one characteristic, it also influences the population mean of more or less closely coupled characteristics. The elements of the phenotypic covariance matrix can be zero, positive, or negative. By combining the tw ...
Negative frequency-dependent selection is frequently
... advantage over the previously common resident phenotype, regardless of frequency of the novel phenotype in the population immediately following the mass-migration event. The evolutionary dynamics occurring in this framework do not occur because of rare advantage and, in most cases, will not result i ...
... advantage over the previously common resident phenotype, regardless of frequency of the novel phenotype in the population immediately following the mass-migration event. The evolutionary dynamics occurring in this framework do not occur because of rare advantage and, in most cases, will not result i ...
Cladistic Parsimony, Historical Linguistics, and Cultural
... In addition to the theory of natural selection, the other great triumph of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is the advancement and defense of the theory of common ancestry. This is the idea that any two organisms, including those that belong to different species, will have, if we look far back enou ...
... In addition to the theory of natural selection, the other great triumph of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is the advancement and defense of the theory of common ancestry. This is the idea that any two organisms, including those that belong to different species, will have, if we look far back enou ...
The biological evolution of guilt, shame and anxiety: A
... As an aspect of our social instincts, they are innate and the environment inevitably elicits and directs their expression. That negative legacy emotions are instinctual does not rule out how much human beings can then choose to modify their responses. Even in respect to an obvious instinct like hung ...
... As an aspect of our social instincts, they are innate and the environment inevitably elicits and directs their expression. That negative legacy emotions are instinctual does not rule out how much human beings can then choose to modify their responses. Even in respect to an obvious instinct like hung ...
Document
... influence a rare interacting population much more strongly than an abundant population, and its consequences may depend on whether populations are growing or contracting, local or invasive (Currat et al., 2008). In all cases, the pattern of contemporary hybridization is potentially only a single sna ...
... influence a rare interacting population much more strongly than an abundant population, and its consequences may depend on whether populations are growing or contracting, local or invasive (Currat et al., 2008). In all cases, the pattern of contemporary hybridization is potentially only a single sna ...
Niche construction in evolutionary theory: the construction
... suspect that NCT is less a serious and consequential evolutionary theory and more an example of ...
... suspect that NCT is less a serious and consequential evolutionary theory and more an example of ...
Sexual selection and temporal phenotypic variation in a damselfly
... static fitness surface favouring an intermediate phenotype (stabilizing selection: Fig. 1b). As the position of the phenotypic distribution changes, at any given time the population may experience directional selection for larger values of the phenotype (phenotypic distribution a in Fig. 1b), direct ...
... static fitness surface favouring an intermediate phenotype (stabilizing selection: Fig. 1b). As the position of the phenotypic distribution changes, at any given time the population may experience directional selection for larger values of the phenotype (phenotypic distribution a in Fig. 1b), direct ...
Neutral stability, drift, and the diversification of languages Christina Pawlowitsch Panayotis Mertikopoulos
... signaling system. Lewis—who writes just before the advent of evolutionary game theory—motivates this by the “salient” character of these strategies. Later, when Lewis’ model has been taken up under the use of methods which in the meantime had been introduced by evolutionary game theory, it has been ...
... signaling system. Lewis—who writes just before the advent of evolutionary game theory—motivates this by the “salient” character of these strategies. Later, when Lewis’ model has been taken up under the use of methods which in the meantime had been introduced by evolutionary game theory, it has been ...
Pfennig and Kingsolver
... added). Thus, Darwin recognized that no theory of evolution would be complete if it failed to provide a plausible mechanism that could explain how living things change over evolutionary time. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection provided such a mechanism. Yet, Darwin’s theory goes beyon ...
... added). Thus, Darwin recognized that no theory of evolution would be complete if it failed to provide a plausible mechanism that could explain how living things change over evolutionary time. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection provided such a mechanism. Yet, Darwin’s theory goes beyon ...
Local adaptation, evolutionary potential and host - MiVEGEC
... At the beginning of a simulation each population is founded by 10 randomly chosen individuals among the 16 potential genotypes. Foundation is immediately followed by a reproduction event which allows host and parasite populations to reach their respective fixed population sizes, Nh and Np. This init ...
... At the beginning of a simulation each population is founded by 10 randomly chosen individuals among the 16 potential genotypes. Foundation is immediately followed by a reproduction event which allows host and parasite populations to reach their respective fixed population sizes, Nh and Np. This init ...
The impact of translocations on neutral and functional genetic
... directly relevant. Weeks et al. (2011) introduced the concept of ‘genetic capture’, where the minimum number of individuals to translocate is determined by the capture of ≥95% of source population genetic diversity. Models have also been developed to predict allele retention accounting for post-tran ...
... directly relevant. Weeks et al. (2011) introduced the concept of ‘genetic capture’, where the minimum number of individuals to translocate is determined by the capture of ≥95% of source population genetic diversity. Models have also been developed to predict allele retention accounting for post-tran ...
What is comparable in comparative cognition?
... unrelated lineages of echolocating bats [52], and also between bats and toothed whales [20,21]. Subsequent discoveries of parallel sequence evolution in other genes expressed in the cochlear hair cells of bats and cetaceans suggest that the evolution of echolocation has involved convergent changes i ...
... unrelated lineages of echolocating bats [52], and also between bats and toothed whales [20,21]. Subsequent discoveries of parallel sequence evolution in other genes expressed in the cochlear hair cells of bats and cetaceans suggest that the evolution of echolocation has involved convergent changes i ...
Pre´cis of Evolution in Four Dimensions
... One thing that most mid- and late-20th century evolutionists were unwilling to incorporate into their theory was the possibility that the generation of new variations might be influenced by environmental conditions, and, hence, that not all inherited variation is “random” in origin. During the first ...
... One thing that most mid- and late-20th century evolutionists were unwilling to incorporate into their theory was the possibility that the generation of new variations might be influenced by environmental conditions, and, hence, that not all inherited variation is “random” in origin. During the first ...
Cambrian Explosion of Life: the Big Bang in Metazoan Evolution
... the Cambrian phyla dating from 1.2 Ga ago, nearly 700 Ma before the Cambrian explosion! Wray et al suggest that the metazoan phyla diverged from a common ancestor 1.2 Ga ago and underwent a cryptic evolution until the Cambrian explosion. The absence of missing ancestors is then accounted using the a ...
... the Cambrian phyla dating from 1.2 Ga ago, nearly 700 Ma before the Cambrian explosion! Wray et al suggest that the metazoan phyla diverged from a common ancestor 1.2 Ga ago and underwent a cryptic evolution until the Cambrian explosion. The absence of missing ancestors is then accounted using the a ...
Darwinism and Meaning
... us this, therefore, it necessarily allowed us to foresee our own death; we became acutely aware that we are not immortal. This may have been all well and fine, but natural selection was not finished: It also made us deeply troubled by this awareness, and more specifically, by the awareness of our se ...
... us this, therefore, it necessarily allowed us to foresee our own death; we became acutely aware that we are not immortal. This may have been all well and fine, but natural selection was not finished: It also made us deeply troubled by this awareness, and more specifically, by the awareness of our se ...
Repeated evolution of reproductive isolation in a marine snail
... the standard use of the two terms ‘parallel evolution’ and ‘convergent evolution’ for independent evolution of similar traits in closely and distantly related taxa, respectively, is misleading, as the same gene can sometimes be found to cause the same phenotypic effect in distantly related species, ...
... the standard use of the two terms ‘parallel evolution’ and ‘convergent evolution’ for independent evolution of similar traits in closely and distantly related taxa, respectively, is misleading, as the same gene can sometimes be found to cause the same phenotypic effect in distantly related species, ...
Explaining stasis: microevolutionary studies in natural populations
... of the ‘breeders equation’ (Eq. (1)) being non-zero, most populations of wild birds, some of which have been studied for more than 50 years (approximately 30 generations), show little sign of evolving towards earlier breeding times. In the discussion that follows we will often return to this example ...
... of the ‘breeders equation’ (Eq. (1)) being non-zero, most populations of wild birds, some of which have been studied for more than 50 years (approximately 30 generations), show little sign of evolving towards earlier breeding times. In the discussion that follows we will often return to this example ...
DESCENT WITH MODIFICATION
... Why would an organism possess organs without function? Why would an organism grow a part and then discard it? If organisms evolved from ancestors in which that part functioned, the gene code to make the part would still be there even though it doesn’t work. If the organ is not vital to survival, the ...
... Why would an organism possess organs without function? Why would an organism grow a part and then discard it? If organisms evolved from ancestors in which that part functioned, the gene code to make the part would still be there even though it doesn’t work. If the organ is not vital to survival, the ...