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Biophysical basis for convergent evolution of two veil-forming microbes [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Microbes living in stagnant water typically rely on chemical diffusion to draw nutrients from their environment. The sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Thiovulum majus and the ciliate Uronemella have independently evolved the ability to form a ‘veil’, a ...
Alexander P. Petroff +4 more
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Comparative Genomics Sheds Light on the Convergent Evolution of Miniaturized Wasps
Molecular biology and evolution, 2021 Miniaturization has occurred in many animal lineages, including insects and vertebrates, as a widespread trend during animal evolution. Among Hymenoptera, miniaturization has taken place in some parasitoid wasp lineages independently, and may have ...
Hong-xing Xu +12 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Whether induced epigenetic changes contribute to long-term adaptation remains controversial. Recent studies indicate that environmentally cued changes in gene body methylation (gbM) can facilitate acclimatization.
Yushuai Wang +3 more
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Convergent evolution of gene regulatory networks underlying plant adaptations to dry environments
Plant, Cell and Environment, 2021 Plants transitioned from an aquatic to a terrestrial lifestyle during their evolution. On land, fluctuations on water availability in the environment became one of the major problems they encountered. The appearance of morpho‐physiological adaptations to
M. Artur, K. Kajala
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Convergent Evolution of Locomotory Modes in Euarchontoglires
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 The research of phenotypic convergence is of increasing importance in adaptive evolution. Locomotory modes play important roles in the adaptive evolution of species in the Euarchontoglires, however, the investigation of convergent evolution of the ...
Wei-hang Geng +11 more
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Morphological convergence in ‘river dolphin’ skulls [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Convergent evolution can provide insights into the predictability of, and constraints on, the evolution of biodiversity. One striking example of convergence is seen in the ‘river dolphins’.
Charlotte E. Page, Natalie Cooper
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Giant lobelias exemplify convergent evolution
BMC Biology, 2010 Giant lobeliads on tropical mountains in East Africa and Hawaii have highly unusual, giant-rosette growth forms that appear to be convergent on each other and on those of several independently evolved groups of Asteraceae and other families.
Givnish Thomas J
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Royal Society Open Science, 2021 The recurrence of similar evolutionary patterns within different habitats often reflects parallel selective pressures acting upon either standing or independently occurring genetic variation to produce a convergence of phenotypes.
Tyler K. Chafin +11 more
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BMC Plant Biology, 2020 Background Desiccation tolerant Selaginella species evolved to survive extreme environmental conditions. Studies to determine the mechanisms involved in the acquisition of desiccation tolerance (DT) have focused on only a few Selaginella species.
Gerardo Alejo-Jacuinde +4 more
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