Secondary metabolites are natural products usually synthesized by microorganisms, and are not essential for microbial growth but confer a selective advantage on these organisms. Comparison of these gene clusters potentially involved in the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, to some extent, may expand o...
genetic and developmental mechanisms driving tail-length differences between forest and prairie ecotypes of deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). We first show that long-tailed forest mice perform better in an arboreal locomotion assay, consistent
Species in a common landscape often face similar selective environments. The capacity of organisms to adapt to these environments may be largely species specific. Quantifying shared and unique adaptive responses across species within landscapes may thus improve our understanding of landscape-moderated biodiv...
Figure 2. Genome landscape, phylogenetic analysis, and gene synteny conservation of A. pleuronectes A. Circos plot showing the genomic features of A. pleuronectes. The tracks from the outer to the inner indicate chromosome length, repeat sequence percentage in each 100 kb genomic interval, the...
with a global distribution and the most complete Cenozoic species-level fossil record6. Their calcareous skeletons, or tests, preserve not only their entire life history, but also a biogeochemical expression of the surrounding water column (e.g.,7). These features allow for high-resolution ...
the study supports the concept of evolutionary toxicology, and issues raised by Whitehead et al. [6] describing how the key features of populations, the characteristics of environmental pollution, and the genetic architecture underlying adaptive traits, may interact to shape the likelihood of evolutiona...
of distinct morphological features in the icefish taxa. Population and species-specific antifreeze glycoprotein gene expansion and glacial cycle-paced duplication/degeneration of the zona pellucida protein gene families indicated fluctuating thermal environments and periodic influence of glacial cycles on noto...
The basic features of an adaptive approach can be seen in all four applications. For example, a key feature is the presence of uncertainty about the resource system and the way it responds to management interventions. Another is the need to engage stakeholders in clarifying the objectives of ...
Huxley to Darwin, Nov. 23, 1859, the day before publication of the Origin. Abstract The term adaptive radiation has been recurrently used to describe evolutionary patterns of several lineages, and has been proposed as the main driver of biological diversification. Different definitions and criteria ...
features were also observed. The overlap demonstrated a reasonable DMR overlap between all the comparisons with the same 45 overlapping DMR as the two individual comparisons. Overall the same phenomenon was observed in having a significant epigenetic alteration in the comparisons of the combined lakes ...