Sentences with phrase «phenotypic divergence»

Phenotypic divergence of exotic fish populations is shaped by spatial proximity and habitat differences across an invaded landscape.

Peter A.H. Westley, Corinne M. Conway & Ian A. Fleming — 2012 (2)([email protected]) Keywords: allometry, biological invasions, coloration patterns, geometric morphometrics, microevolution, phenotypic divergence with distance, phenotypic plasticity, salmonid fishes

This enemy - driven phenotypic divergence in a diversifying lineage illustrates the potential importance of consumer - resource and symbiotic species interactions in adaptive radiation.

Mechanistically distinct pathways of divergent regulatory DNA creation contribute to evolution of human - specific genomic regulatory networks driving phenotypic divergence of Homo sapiens.

Each species seems to be tied to their local seasonal cycle of greening, which is markedly different among species, suggesting that annual climate cycles may help maintain genetic and phenotypic divergence in giraffes.

«By focusing on phenotypic divergence [i.e., the genetic make - up and environmental influences] between sister species in postcopulatory sexual selection, we can predict patterns of reproductive isolation and the causal mechanisms underlying such isolation,» he says.

Not exact matches

This divergence gives rise to two sets of phenotypic properties.

These results imply that predators are driving the evolution of phenotypic diversity in symbiotic defense traits in this system, and that divergence in defensive morphology may provide ecological opportunities that help to fuel the adaptive radiation of this genus of midges on goldenrods.