The effects of competition and predation on diversification in a model adaptive radiation.

doi:10.1038/nature05599

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The effects of competition and predation on diversification in a model adaptive radiation.

Nature - 22 Mar 2007

Meyer Justin R, Kassen Rees

Abstract excerpt

Much of life's diversity is thought to have arisen through successive rounds of adaptive radiation-the rapid diversification of a lineage into a range of ecologically and phenotypically distinct species. Both resource competition and predation have been suggested as mechanisms driving this process, although the former is better studied than the latter. Here we show experimentally how predation by a protist,...

Topics

Animals
Biodiversity
Biological Evolution
Colony Count, Microbial
Competitive Behavior
Genetic Variation
Models, Biological
Predatory Behavior
Pseudomonas fluorescens
Selection, Genetic
Tetrahymena thermophila

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PMID: 17377581
DOI: 10.1038/nature05599

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