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Rogers, Alan R. | Population differences in quantitative characters as opposed to gene frequencies | Hypotheses about evolution can be tested by comparing genetics differences with those of quantitative characters. Such comparisons are one source of information concerning the forces that maintain variation among natural populations. | Genes; Evolution; Anthropology | 1986-05 |
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Rogers, Alan R. | Group selection by selective emigration: the effects of migration and kin structure | Group selection may operate through selective emigration, as Sewall Wright envisioned, as well as through selective extinction. The discrete-generation model of selective emigration developed here yields the following conclusions. 1. The fitness benefit of altruism, "depends on the frequency of altr... | Natural selection; Selective extinction; Evolution | 1990-03 |
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Davidson, Diane W. | Evolutionary ecology of symbiotic ant-plant relationships | Abstract.--A tabular survey of ant-plant symbioses worldwide summarizes aspects of the evolutionary ecology of these associations. Remarkable similarities between ant-plant symbioses in disjunct tropical regions result from convergent and parallel evolution of similarly preadapted ants and plants. ... | Symbioses; Evolution; Taxonomic | 1993 |
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Farmer, Colleen G. | Parental care: the key to understanding endothermy and other convergent features in birds and mammals | Birds and mammals share a number of features that are remarkably similar but that have evolved independently. One of these characters, endothermy, has been suggested to have played a cardinal role in avian and mammalian evolution. I hypothesize that it is parental care, rather than endothermy, that ... | Evolution; Metabolism; Convergence | 2000 |
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Carrier, David R. | Electromyographic pattern of the gular pump in monitor lizards | Gular pumping in monitor lizards is known to play an important role in lung ventilation, but its evolutionary origin has not yet been addressed. To determine whether the gular pump derives from the buccal pump of basal tetrapods or is a novel invention, we investigated the electromyographic activity... | Electromyographic pattern; Gular pump; Varanus exanthematicus; Lung ventilation; Evolution | 2001 |
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Poulter, Charles Dale | Isoprenyl diphosphate synthases: protein sequence comparisons, a phylogenetic tree, and predictions of secondary structure | Isoprenyl diphosphate synthases are ubiquitous enzymes that catalyze the basic chain-elongation reaction in the isoprene biosynthetic pathway. Pairwise sequence comparisons were made for 6 farnesyl diphosphate synthases, 6 geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthases, and a hexaprenyl diphosphate synthase... | Catalytic site; Evolution; Farnesyl diphosphate; Geranylgeranyl diphosphate; Prenyltransferase; Substrate binding: | 1994 |
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