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Shifting habitats, morphology, and selective pressures: developmental polyphenism in an adaptive radiation of Hawaiian spiders.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jan 2015
Brewer Michael S, Carter Rebecca A, Croucher Peter J P, Gillespie Rosemary G
Abstract excerpt
Particularly intriguing examples of adaptive radiation are those in which lineages show parallel or convergent evolution, suggesting utilization of similar genetic or developmental pathways. The current study focuses on an adaptive radiation of Hawaiian "spiny-leg" spiders in which diversification is associated with repeated convergent evolution leading to similar sets of ecomorphs on each island. However, two...
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