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Regulatory Genes and Adaptation

Past, Present, and Future

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Evolutionary Biology

Abstract

Ever since the publication of The Origin of Species, evolutionary biologists have fixed their attention on how natural selection brings about adaptation. The study of adaptation has most often involved both comparative and functional morphology or physiology. As a result, the relevance of special body parts or metabolic systems to the survival of particular organisms has been shown many times in the last 120 years. The genetic basis for most of the adaptations which have been described, however, has not been elucidated, often because the organisms themselves are not amenable to genetic analysis, or because the traits are very complex, i.e., the genetic basis can only be described as polygenic. Thus, the effects of single genes cannot be parsed out, and the evolutionary dynamics of those genes within and between populations cannot be easily examined.

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  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

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