Molecular Adaptation during Adaptive Radiation in the Hawaiian Endemic Genus Schiedea
Maxim V. Kapralov, Dmitry A. Filatov · 2006
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Maxim Kapralov and Dmitry Filatov studied evolution in one of its classic island settings for a 2006 PLOS ONE paper. Schiedea is a plant genus found only in Hawaii, where one ancestor split into many species suited to different niches. That rapid split is called adaptive radiation.
The authors read the plants' DNA for signs of molecular adaptation, changes in genes driven by natural selection during the radiation. Finding which genes changed, and how fast, shows adaptation at work at the level of molecules, not just shapes and habits. Island groups like Schiedea are natural experiments, and this study checks the experiment's results gene by gene.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maxim V. Kapralov, Dmitry A. Filatov |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2006 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000008