In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection. The term...
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Bee (redirect from Coevolution of bees and flowers)
pollination, and are the most efficient pollinating insects. In a process of coevolution, flowers developed floral rewards such as nectar and longer tubes, and...
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CoEvolution Quarterly (1974–1985) was a journal descended from Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog. Brand founded the CoEvolution Quarterly in 1974 using...
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female reproductive tracts may also play a role in sexual antagonistic coevolution with males. In Drosophila species, a large group of enzymes known as...
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103H. doi:10.1038/ncomms1105. PMID 21045821. Brundrett, M. C. (2002). "Coevolution of roots and mycorrhizas of land plants". New Phytologist. 154 (2): 275–304...
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Mosaic coevolution is a theory in which geographic location and community ecology shape differing coevolution between strongly interacting species in multiple...
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Cooperative Coevolution (CC) in the field of biological evolution is an evolutionary computation method. It divides a large problem into subcomponents...
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Predation (redirect from Coevolution of predators and prey)
have been characterized as an evolutionary arms race, an example of the coevolution of two species. In a gene centered view of evolution, the genes of predator...
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Host–parasite coevolution is a special case of coevolution, where a host and a parasite continually adapt to each other. This can create an evolutionary...
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Dual inheritance theory (redirect from Gene-culture coevolution)
Dual inheritance theory (DIT), also known as gene–culture coevolution or biocultural evolution, was developed in the 1960s through early 1980s to explain...
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Sexual conflict (redirect from Sexually antagonistic coevolution)
Sexual conflict or sexual antagonism occurs when the two sexes have conflicting optimal fitness strategies concerning reproduction, particularly over the...
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Escape and radiate coevolution is a hypothesis proposing that a coevolutionary 'arms-race' between primary producers and their consumers contributes to...
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figs, and tied wild fig fruits on to the cultivated trees. Overall, the coevolution of Ficus and wasps features Ficus being very specific as a host, combined...
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Pollinator Partnership (redirect from Coevolution Institute)
important pollinating species. The Pollinator Partnership was founded as the Coevolution Institute (CoE) in 1997. The early mission of the organization was to...
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leads both the predator and prey to come together at the same flowers. Coevolution of bees with the Australian crab spider has resulted in the spiders being...
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Autumn leaf color (section Coevolution)
reabsorb nutrients (especially nitrogen) more efficiently. According to the coevolution theory, the colors are warning signals to insects like aphids that use...
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Fig wasp (section Coevolution)
Fig wasps are wasps of the superfamily Chalcidoidea which spend their larval stage inside fig syconia. Some are pollinators but others simply feed off...
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societies which were already high in LP frequency. The gene–culture coevolution hypothesis of the positive selection of the lactase persistence phenotype...
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Prodoxidae (section Yucca moths and coevolution)
plant, cheating the yucca out of any benefits from this relationship. Coevolution is particularly important in evolutionary biology as it demonstrates...
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Bee hummingbird (section Coevolution with flowers)
with the flowers that supply nectar is a notable example of bird–plant coevolution with its primary food source (flowers for nectar). Flowers that bee hummingbirds...
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Psyllid (section Coevolution)
Insect-plant interactions have been important in defining models of coevolution and cospeciation, referring to whether plant speciation drives insect...
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Stewart Brand (section CoEvolution Quarterly)
social sciences, and on the contemporary scene in general, Brand founded CoEvolution Quarterly in 1974, aimed primarily at educated laypeople. Brand never...
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Microbiome (section Coevolution)
gut microbiome has emerged as a key regulator of host physiology, and coevolution between host and microbial lineages has played a key role in the adaptation...
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Entomophily (section Coevolution)
some species also pollen baskets on their hind legs. This required the coevolution of insects and flowering plants in the development of pollination behaviour...
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Diascia is a genus of around 70 species of herbaceous annual and perennial flowering plants of the family Scrophulariaceae, native to southern Africa,...
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strength over other optimisation algorithms, specifically cooperative coevolution, is that it is better able to handle non-separable optimisation problems...
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interactions in evolution leading to character displacements and antagonistic coevolution. Arms races may be classified as either symmetrical or asymmetrical....
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multilevel selection theory regarding humans to another theory, gene–culture coevolution, by acknowledging that culture seems to characterize a group-level mechanism...
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Pollination (section Coevolution)
the origin or diversification of angiosperms. In addition, cases of coevolution between bee species and flowering plants have been illustrated by specialized...
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Parallel evolution (section Parallel coevolution of traits between hummingbirds and sunbirds contributing to ecological guilds)
Carlos (July 2021). "Sucrose digestion capacity in birds shows convergent coevolution with nectar composition across continents". iScience. 24 (7): 102717...
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