adaptive evolution

collocation in English

meaningsofadaptiveandevolution

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adaptive
adjective
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/əˈdæp.tɪv/us
/əˈdæp.tɪv/
having an ability to change to suit ...
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evolution
noun[U]
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/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən/us
/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən/
the way in which living things change and develop over millions ...
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The population ecology of contemporary adaptations: what empirical studies reveal about conditions that promoteadaptiveevolution.
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The population genetics of adaptation : the distribution of factors fixed duringadaptiveevolution.
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Codon-substitution models to detectadaptiveevolutionthat account for heterogeneous selective pressures among site classes.
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However, a comprehensive theory ofadaptiveevolutionmust feature development beyond a constraining force.
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Adaptiveevolutionof chloroplast genome structure inferred using a parametric bootstrap approach.
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Adaptiveevolutionin a spatially structured asexual population.
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Brown makes the case that an understanding ofadaptiveevolutionmust feature developmental mechanisms and plasticity.
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Evolvability, modularity, and adaptationism suggest that there must be a large number of genes available foradaptiveevolution, but how many genes are required and how many genes are there?
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Under purifying selection (v<1), v increases when selection is relaxed, but the reverse is expected underadaptiveevolution(v>1).
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As a consequence ofadaptiveevolution, populations under selective conditions change genetically and phenotypically after a number of generations in order to survive in that particular environment.
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All methods of slowing down the march of resistance to antibiotics have to work within this framework ofadaptiveevolution.
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As with humans, fewer studies have searched foradaptiveevolutionin non-coding regions of other organisms.
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It has been suggested that cultural evolution may have replaced genetic evolution, and hence slowed the rate ofadaptiveevolutionover the past 10,000 years.
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The other methods for detectingadaptiveevolutionuse genome wide approaches, often to look for evidence of selective sweeps.
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However, there is a particular interest in the search foradaptiveevolutionin brain genes, despite the ethical issues surrounding such research.
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Quantifyingadaptiveevolutionin the human genome gives insights into our own evolutionary history and helps to resolve this neutralist-selectionist debate.
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This raises an important issue, which is that many of these tests foradaptiveevolutionare very weak.
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Others may represent loss of function mutations, possibly due to the action of biased gene conversion rather thanadaptiveevolution.
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Adaptiveevolutionoccurs through the dominance and survival of competing genes within a species.
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