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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Variation in biotic and abiotic factors among populations affects individual behaviors by transforming the social landscape and shaping mating systems. Consequently, describing behaviors in natural populations requires consideration of the biological and
Alessandro Devigili +3 more
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, 2019 Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of evolution, "On the Origin of Species" continues to be as controversial today as when it was first published.
C. Darwin
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An experimentally introduced population of Brassica rapa (Brassicaceae). 1. Phenotypic selection over three years following colonization of a novel environment [PDF]
Plant Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Background and aims – Despite the importance of selection in driving evolution, little is known about the consistency of selection, particularly in the early stages of colonization of novel environments. This study examines the targets and consistency of
Michael Sekor, Steven Franks
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Human-Mediated Land Use Change Drives Intraspecific Plant Trait Variation
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 In the Anthropocene, more than three quarters of ice-free land has experienced some form of human-driven habitat modification, with agriculture dominating 40% of the Earth’s surface.
Hayley Schroeder +4 more
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Natural Selection and Natural Theology [PDF]
Nature, 1883 I HAVE just received last week's issue of NATURE from England, and find in it some remarks by Prof. Asa Gray on an article of mine which appeared in the Contemporary Review. As he appears to solicit a further statement of my views, I shall supply a brief explanation of those passages in my article to which he refers.
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F1000Research, 2021 Background: Wall teichoic acid (WTA) genes are essential for production of cell walls in gram-positive bacteria and necessary for survival and variability in the cassette has led to recent antibiotic resistance acquisition in pathogenic bacteria ...
Gary B. Fogel +6 more
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Genomic Responses to Climate Change: Making the Most of the Drosophila Model
Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 It is pressing to understand how animal populations evolve in response to climate change. We argue that new sequencing technologies and the use of historical samples are opening unprecedented opportunities to investigate genome-wide responses to changing
Murillo F. Rodrigues, Rodrigo Cogni
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THE CAUSES OF NATURAL SELECTION [PDF]
Evolution, 1990 We discuss the necessary and sufficient conditions for identifying the cause of natural selection on a phenotypic trait. We reexamine the observational methods recently proposed for measuring selection in natural populations and illustrate why the multivariate analysis of selection is insufficient for identifying the causal agents of selection.
Susan Kalisz, Michael J. Wade
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Natural Knockouts: Natural Selection Knocked Out
Biology, 2017 In functional genomics studies, research is dedicated to unveiling the function of genes using gene-knockouts, model organisms in which a gene is artificially inactivated. The idea is that, by knocking out the gene, the provoked phenotype would inform us
Peter Borger
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Information-Geometric Optimization with Natural Selection
Entropy, 2020 Evolutionary algorithms, inspired by natural evolution, aim to optimize difficult objective functions without computing derivatives. Here we detail the relationship between classical population genetics of quantitative traits and evolutionary ...
Jakub Otwinowski +2 more
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