Sentences with phrase «rapid adaptive evolution»

Furthermore, male reproductive traits and genes undergo rapid adaptive evolution in diverse lineages such as Drosophila, fish, rodents and primates [5], [9]--[12], [16], [17].

In contrast, aneuploidy can also be advantageous and in fungi confers antifungal drug resistance and enables rapid adaptive evolution.

These findings, especially the remarkably young age of the positively selected variant, suggest that the human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution.

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This allowed the group led by Ole Seehausen (head of the Fish Ecology and Evolution department at Eawag and Professor of Aquatic Ecology at Bern University) to provide strong evidence for his theory that hybridization between divergent species, in conjunction with ecological opportunity, can facilitate rapid adaptive radiation.

Andrew P. Hendry, Aspen S. Hendry & Cedar A. Hendry — 2013 (3)([email protected]) Keywords: adaptive radiation, constraint, contemporary evolution, diversification, local adaptation, natural selection, rapid evolution, stickleback

Andrew P. Hendry — 2004 (8)([email protected]) Keywords: adaptive divergence, contemporary evolution, ecological speciation, gene flow, rapid evolution, reinforcement, reproductive isolation

Erika Crispo, Joseph D. DiBattista, Cristián Correa, Xavier Thibert - Plante, Ann E. McKellar, Amy K. Schwartz, Daniel Berner, Luis F. De León & Andrew P. Hendry — 2010 (1)([email protected]) Keywords: adaptation, adaptive plasticity, climate change, contemporary evolution, human impact, meta - analysis, rapid evolution, reaction norms