Article
Molecular adaptation during adaptive radiation in the Hawaiian endemic genus Schiedea.
PloS one - 20 Dec 2006
Kapralov Maxim V, Filatov Dmitry A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: "Explosive" adaptive radiations on islands remain one of the most puzzling evolutionary phenomena. The rate of phenotypic and ecological adaptations is extremely fast during such events, suggesting that many genes may be under fairly strong selection. However, no evidence for adaptation at the level of protein coding genes was found, so it has been suggested that selection may work mainly on...
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