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Reaction Norms, Evolution of
Rebekah A. Oomen, Jeffrey A. Hutchings
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2020-10-28
Evolution of Reaction NormsIntroductionPhenotypic variance is a function of genetic variability, environmental variation, and the ways in which geneti...
Reinforcement
Henry Arenas-Castro, Beth Brittain, Daniel R. Matute, Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2019-06-26
ReinforcementIntroductionReinforcement, or the strengthening of reproductive isolation in response to hybridization costs, is a case in which natural ...
Reproductive Proteins, Evolution of
Alberto Civetta
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Evolution of Reproductive ProteinsIntroductionEvolutionary geneticists have long been interested in the identification of variation at the molecular l...
Selection Gradients
Sandy Kawano
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Selection GradientsIntroductionNatural selection and sexual selection are important evolutionary processes that can shape the phenotypic distributions...
Selection, Directional
Andrew MacColl
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Directional Selection Introduction Directional selection occurs when individuals with traits on one side of the mean in their population survi...
Selection, Disruptive
Adam M. Siepielski
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
Disruptive Selection Introduction A population experiences disruptive selection when more extreme phenotypes (or genotypes) within a populatio...
Selection, Natural
Mark A. McPeek
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Natural Selection Introduction Natural selection is the evolutionary process by which individuals with particular attributes in a population c...
Selection, Sexual
Charlotta Kvarnemo
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Sexual Selection Introduction In 1871 Darwin introduced the “sexual selection” concept in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Selfish Genes
Jon Arvid Agren, Greg Hurst
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Selfish GenesIntroductionIn its original formulation, Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was based upon individual organisms. It is ind...
Sexual Conflict
Claudia Fricke
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Sexual Conflict Introduction Sexual conflict is an evolutionary theory within the framework of sexual selection based on the observation that ...
Sexual Selection and Speciation
Janette W. Boughman, Jason Keagy, Emily Weigel
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Sexual Selection and SpeciationIntroductionThe widespread observation that for many closely related taxa, sexual traits differ more markedly than othe...
Sexual Size Dimorphism
Wolf Blanckenhorn
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
Sexual Size DimorphismIntroductionSexual reproduction is common in nature, especially among larger organisms (animals and plants), albeit not ubiquito...
Speciation
Richard G. Harrison
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Speciation Introduction The diversity of life on earth is a balance between the origination rate of new lineages or species and the rate at wh...
Speciation Genetics and Genomics
Chris Jiggins, Catherine Peichel
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Speciation Genetics and Genomics Introduction Speciation is the evolutionary process that generates biodiversity and has been a central focus ...
Speciation, Sympatric
Axel Meyer, Andreas F. Kautt
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Sympatric Speciation Introduction Speciation can be described as the process of the splitting of cohesive groups of organisms into distinct en...
Species Concepts
Jody Hey
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Species Concepts Introduction In a general and nontechnical sense, species are kinds of organisms. But for naturalists, from at least the earl...
Sperm Competition
Simone Immler
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Sperm Competition Introduction Sperm competition is defined as the competition between sperm from at least two males for the fertilization of ...
Stasis
Scott Lidgard, Melanie Hopkins
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Stasis Introduction In modern biology, stasis refers primarily to a relative lack of evolutionary change over a long period during the history...
Systems Biology
Mark L. Siegal
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Systems BiologyIntroductionThe exact meaning of the term systems biology is debated, yet most biologists agree that it refers to the study of organism...
Taxonomy and Classification
Nico Cellinese
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
Taxonomy and Classification Introduction Taxonomy is the discipline at the core of biological discoveries, and classification is its most dire...
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