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Genetic mechanism of adaptive evolution: the example of adaptation to high altitudes.
Yi chuan = Hereditas - 20 Aug 2022
Hao Yan, Lei Fu-Min
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Since Darwin's time, elucidating the mechanism of adaptive evolution has been one of the most important scientific issues in evolutionary biology and ecology. Adaptive evolution usually means that species evolve special phenotypic traits to increase fitness under selective pressures. Phenotypic adaptation can be observed at different hierarchical levels of morphology, physiology, biochemistry, histology, and...
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