Article
Predisposed to adapt? Clade-level differences in characters affecting swimming performance in damselflies.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Dec 2000
McPeek M A
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies have shown that two or three lineages of Enallagma damselflies, which historically co-existed with fish, recently invaded and adapted to living with large dragonfly predators in fishless waters. In adapting to live with these new predators, lineages shifted behaviorally to using...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Arginine Kinase
- Environment
- Evolution, Molecular
- Fresh Water
- Insecta
- Phenotype
- Swimming
