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SUBMITTER: Boratynski Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5471182 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Boratyński Zbyszek Z Brito José C JC Campos João C JC Cunha José L JL Granjon Laurent L Mappes Tapio T Ndiaye Arame A Rzebik-Kowalska Barbara B Serén Nina N
Scientific reports 20170614 1
There are two main factors explaining variation among species and the evolution of characters along phylogeny: adaptive change, including phenotypic and genetic responses to selective pressures, and phylogenetic inertia, or the resemblance between species due to shared phylogenetic history. Phenotype-habitat colour match, a classic Darwinian example of the evolution of camouflage (crypsis), offers the opportunity to test the importance of historical versus ecological mechanisms in shaping phenot ...[more]