| Titre : | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 38 - 2007 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Christopher G. Oakley, Auteur ;
Ken S. Moriuchi, Auteur ;
Alice A. Winn, Auteur
Cleistogamous species present strong evidence for the stability of mixed mating, but are generally not considered in this context. Individuals of cleistogamous species produce both obligately selfing cleistogamous flowers (CL) and potentially ou[...]
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The coupled carbon-climate models reported in the literature all demonstrate a positive feedback between terrestrial carbon cycles and climate warming. A primary mechanism underlying the modeled positive feedback is the kinetic sensitivity of ph[...]
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Brian J. McGill, Auteur ;
Joel S. Brown, Auteur
Continuous-trait game theory fills the niche of enabling analytically solvable models of the evolution of biologically realistically complex traits. Game theory provides a mathematical language for understanding evolution by natural selection. C[...]
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Richard K. Grosberg, Auteur ;
Richard R. Strathmann, Auteur
Benefits of increased size and functional specialization of cells have repeatedly promoted the evolution of multicellular organisms from unicellular ancestors. Many requirements for multicellular organization (cell adhesion, cell-cell communicat[...]
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Studies of the evolution of phenotypic diversity have gained momentum among neontologists interested in the uneven distribution of diversity across the tree of life. Potential morphological diversity in a lineage is a function of the number of i[...]
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Jordi Bascompte, Auteur ;
Pedro Jordano, Auteur
The mutually beneficial interactions between plants and their animal pollinators and seed dispersers have been paramount in the generation of Earth's biodiversity These mutualistic interactions often involve dozens or even hundreds of species th[...]
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Arturo Becerra, Auteur ;
Luis Delaye, Auteur ;
Sara Islas, Auteur ;
Antonio Lazcano, Auteur
Quantitative estimates of the gene complement of the last common ancestor of all extant organisms, that is, the cenancestor, may be hindered by ancient horizontal gene transfer events and polyphyletic gene losses, as well as by biases in genome [...]
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Juan Nunez-Farfan, Auteur ;
Juan Fornoni, Auteur ;
Pedro Luis Valverde, Auteur
Tolerance and resistance are two different plant defense strategies against herbivores. Empirical evidence in natural populations reveals that individual plants allocate resources simultaneously to both strategies, thus plants exhibit a mixed pa[...]
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Susan L. Williams, Auteur ;
Jennifer E. Smith, Auteur
We reviewed over 407 global seaweed introduction events and have increased the total number of introduced seaweed species to 277. Using binomial tests we show that several algal families contain more successful invaders than would be expected by[...]
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Michael Worobey, Auteur ;
Adam Bjork, Auteur ;
Joel O. Wertheim, Auteur
Viral pathogens play a prominent role inhuman health owing to their ability to rapidly evolve creative new ways to exploit their hosts. As elegant and deceptive as many viral adaptations are, humans and their ancestors have repeatedly answered t[...]
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Kayley M. Usher, Auteur ;
Birgitta Bergman, Auteur ;
John A. Raven, Auteur
Cyanobacterial symbioses with eukaryotes are ancient associations that are widely distributed in aquatic and terrestrial environments. Cyanobacteria are a significant driving force in the evolution of their hosts, providing a range of services i[...]
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David M. Richardson, Auteur ;
Philip W. Rundel, Auteur ;
Stephen T. Jackson, Auteur ;
Robert O. Teskey, Auteur ;
James Aronson, Auteur ;
Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Auteur ;
Michael J. Wingfield, Auteur ;
Serban Proches, Auteur
Pines (genus Pinus) form the dominant tree cover over large parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Human activities have affected the distribution, composition, and structure of pine forests for millennia. Different human-mediated factors have affect[...]
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This review proposes ten tentative answers to frequently asked questions about dispersal evolution. I examine methodological issues, model assumptions and predictions, and their relation to empirical data. Study of dispersal evolution points to [...]
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Robert Dudley, Auteur ;
Greg Byrnes, Auteur ;
Stephen P. Yanoviak, Auteur ;
Brendan Borrell, Auteur ;
Rafe M. Brown, Auteur ;
Jimmy A. McGuire, Auteur
A biomechanically parsimonious hypothesis for the evolution of flapping flight in terrestrial vertebrates suggests progression within an arboreal context from jumping to directed aerial descent, gliding with control via appendicular motions, and[...]
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Matthew C. Cowperthwaite, Auteur ;
Lauren Ancel Meyers, Auteur
Recent advances in molecular biology and computation have enabled evolutionary biologists to develop models that explicitly capture molecular structure. By including complex and realistic maps from genotypes to phenotypes, such models are yieldi[...]
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Richard B. Aronson, Auteur ;
Sven Thatje, Auteur ;
Andrew Clarke, Auteur ;
Lloyd S. Peck, Auteur ;
Daniel B. Blake, Auteur ;
Cheryl D. Wilga, Auteur ;
Brad A. Seibel, Auteur
Benthic communities living in shallow-shelf habitats in Antarctica (
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Paul Kron, Auteur ;
Jan Suda, Auteur ;
Brian C. Husband, Auteur
Flow cytometry, a method of rapidly characterizing optical properties of cells and cell components within individuals, populations, and communities, is advancing research in several areas of ecology, systematics, and evolutionary biology. Measur[...]
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Much of the information in visual signals is encoded in motion, form, and texture. Current knowledge about the mechanisms underlying visual communication is spread across diverse disciplines. Contemporary perspectives on the physics, psychology,[...]
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Researchers are increasingly recognizing that social effects influence the evolution of aging. Kin selection theory provides a framework for analyzing such effects because an individual's longevity and mortality schedule may alter its inclusive [...]
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Evolutionary endocrinology: The developing synthesis between endocrinology and evolutionary genetics
Anthony J. Zera, Auteur ;
Lawrence G. Harshman, Auteur ;
Tony D. Williams, Auteur
A productive synthesis of endocrinology and evolutionary genetics has occurred during the past two decades, resulting in the first direct documentation of genetic variation and correlation for endocrine regulators in nondomesticated animals. In [...]
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Sexual selection has a reputation as a major cause of speciation, one of the most potent forces driving reproductive isolation. This reputation arises from observations that species differ most in traits involved with mating success and from suc[...]
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Gabriel Katul, Auteur ;
Amilcare Porporato, Auteur ;
Ram Oren, Auteur
Describing water flow from soil through plants to the atmosphere remains a formidable scientific challenge despite years of research. This challenge is not surprising given the high dimensionality and degree of nonlinearity of the soil-plant sys[...]
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Stuart A. West, Auteur ;
Stephen P. Diggle, Auteur ;
Angus Buckling, Auteur ;
Andy Gardner, Auteur ;
Ashleigh S. Griffins, Auteur
Our understanding of the social lives of microbes has been revolutionized over the past 20 years. It used to be assumed that bacteria and other microorganisms lived relatively independent unicellular lives, without the cooperative behaviors that[...]
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John J. Stachowicz, Auteur ;
John F. Bruno, Auteur ;
J. Emmett Duffy, Auteur
There is growing interest in the effects of changing marine biodiversity on a variety of community properties and ecosystem processes such as nutrient use and cycling, productivity, stability, and trophic transfer. We review published marine exp[...]
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Santiago F. Elena, Auteur ;
Rafael Sanjuan, Auteur
Viruses represent a serious problem faced by human and veterinary medicine and agronomy. New viruses are constantly emerging while old ones evolve and challenge the latest advances in antiviral pharmaceutics, thus generating tremendous social al[...]
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J. T. Streelman, Auteur ;
C. L. Peichel, Auteur ;
D. M. Parichy, Auteur
During the past decade of study in evolutionary developmental biology, we have seen the focus shift away from the stunning conservation of form and function between distantly related taxa toward the causal explanation of differences between clos[...]
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William E. Bradshaw, Auteur ;
Christina M. Holzapfel, Auteur
Photoperiodism is the ability of organisms to assess and use the day length as an anticipatory cue to time seasonal events in their life histories. Photoperiodism is especially important in initiating physiological and developmental processes th[...]
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Outi Savolainen, Auteur ;
Tanja Pyhajarvi, Auteur ;
Timo Knurr, Auteur
Populations are locally adapted when populations have the highest relative fitness at their home sites, and lower fitness in other parts of the range. Results from the extensive experimental plantations of populations of forest trees from differ[...]
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Scott D. Pletcher, Auteur ;
Hadise Kabil, Auteur ;
Linda Partridge, Auteur
We examine how aging is influenced by various chemical challenges that organisms face and by the molecular mechanisms that have evolved to modulate life span in response to them. For example, environmental information, which is detected and proc[...]
