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We have come a long way towards better understanding how new species originate, i.e. speciation, which long remained Darwin`s "mystery of mysteries." Since speciation is the underlying mechanism for radiations, it is the ultimate causation for the biological diversity of life that surrounds us. Without a doubt, Charles Darwin`s contribution to our understanding of the origin of biodiversity cannot be overestimated. This book is a contribution to both the Darwin Year we celebrated in 2009 and to the Year of Biodiversity and Conservation 2010. The studies and model cases presented show the progress and dynamics of research based on Darwinian theories and sheds light on its implications in the context of current biodiversity crises. The great importance of adaptive (and non-adaptive) radiations for biodiversity is widely accepted, but our understanding of the processes and mechanisms involved is still limited and generalizations need to be based on the accumulation of more evidence from additional case studies. The studies presented in this volume are those urgently needed and focus on a variety of organisms and different aspects of radiations. The scientific results presented therein are excellent examples not only of evolution in action, but also of active research on evolutionary processes and their most apparent outcome - biodiversity.
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"Special volume originating from contributions to the Priority Programme SPP 1127 "Radiations : origins of biological diversity" of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Evolution in Action; Case studies in Adaptive Radiation, Speciation and the Origin of Biodiversity; Preface Radiations, or Evolution in Action; Introduction to the Priority Programme ``Radiations: Origins of Biological Diversity´´; Contents; Contributors; Rapid Radiations and Neoendemism in the Madagascan Biodiversity Hotspot; 1 Introduction; 2 Research Approach; 2.1 Taxonomy; 2.2 Phylogeny; 2.3 Nuclear Markers; 2.4 Establishing Biogeographic Hypothesis; 2.5 Divergence Time Estimates; 2.6 Niche Modelling; 3 Results; 3.1 Taxonomic Revision; 3.2 Scaly Tree Fern Phylogeny
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3.3 Radiations of Scaly Tree Ferns in Madagascar3.4 Comparing Current Distribution and Fundamental Distribution; 3.5 Scaly Tree Ferns on the Mascarene Islands; 4 Perspectives; References; Rapid Radiation in the Barley Genus Hordeum (Poaceae) During the Pleistocene in the Americas; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Framework of the Studies, Questions to Answer; 2 Materials and Employed Methods; 3 Results and Discussion; 3.1 Phylogeny of Hordeum; 3.2 Biogeography; 3.3 Speciation Rates; 3.4 Chloroplast Genealogy of Hordeum; 3.5 The Eurasian Hordeum marinum Species Complex
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3.6 North American H. californicum Group3.7 Southern Patagonian Species; 4 Conclusions; References; Studying Adaptive Radiation at the Molecular Level: A Case Study in the Macaronesian Crassulaceae-Sempervivoideae; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Speciation and Adaptive Radiation; 1.2 Island Radiations and Macaronesian Crassulaceae-Sempervivoideae; 1.3 Candidate Genes; 2 Material and Methods; 2.1 Selection of the Study Group; 2.1.1 nrITS; 2.1.2 Candidate Genes; 2.2 Selection of Candidate Genes; 2.2.1 Regulatory Genes; 2.2.2 Structural Gene; 2.3 Laboratory Work; 2.4 Data Analysis
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2.4.1 Phylogenetic AnalysesKa/Ks Values; 2.4.2 Dating; Molecular Dating; 3 Results and Discussion; 3.1 Are the MCS the Result of an Adaptive Radiation?; 3.2 Gene Evolution; 3.2.1 Orthologous/Paralogous Copies; General Pattern; 3.2.2 Phylogenetic Significance; 3.2.3 Evolution Rates of Candidate Genes; 3.3 Evolution of MCS; 4 Summary; References; Key Innovations Versus Key Opportunities: Identifying Causes of Rapid Radiations in Derived Ferns; 1 Introduction; 2 Identifying Evidence for Biological Radiations; 3 Determining the Role of Key Innovations and/ or Key Opportunities
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4 Case Studies in the Epiphytic Polypodiaceae5 Key Innovations: Ants and Ferns; 6 Key Innovations and Key Opportunities; 7 Perspectives; References; Evolution of the Mating System in the Genus Capsella (Brassicaceae); 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Mating System in Brassicaceae Genera; 1.2 The Genus Capsella Is a Wild Relative of the Model Plant Arabidopsis; 1.3 The Dynamic of the Mating System Provides Adaptive Potential; 2 Materials and Methods; 2.1 Plant Material; 2.2 Identification of S-alleles in C. grandiflora and C. rubella; 2.2.1 DNA Extraction; PCR and Cloning; 2.2.2 PCR-RFLP
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2.2.3 Sequencing and Sequence Analyzes
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Rapid radiations and neoendemism in the Madagascan biodiversity hotspot
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Studying adaptive radiation at the molecular level : a case study in the Macaronesian Crassulaceae-Sempervivoideae
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Key innovations versus key opportunities : identifying causes of rapid radiations in derived ferns
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Evolution of the mating system in the genus Capsella (Brassicaceae)
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Pollinator-driven speciation in sexually deceptive orchids of the genus Ophrys
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Population genetics of speciation and demographic inference under population subdivision : insights from studies on wild tomatoes (Solanum sect. Lycopersicon)
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Genetic diversity, evolution and domestication of wheat and barley in the Fertile Crescent
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Mechanisms of speciation in Southeast Asian ant-plants of the genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae)
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Speciation in obligately plant-associated Crematogaster ants : host distribution rather than adaption towards specific hosts drives the process
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Radiation, biological diversity and host-parasite interactions in wild roses, rust fungi and insects
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Speciation via differential host-plant use in the tephritid fly Tephritis conura
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Solar powered seaslugs (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda, Mollusca) : incorporation of photosynthetic units : a key character enhancing radiation?
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Are cuticular hydrocarbons involved in speciation of fungus-growing termites (Isoptera: Macrotermitinae)?
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Electric organ discharge divergence promotes ecological speciation in sympatrically occurring African weakly electric fish (Campylomormyrus)
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Ongoing phenotypic and genotypic diversification in adaptively radiated freshwater crabs from Jamaica
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The herring gull complex (Larus argentatus ; fuscus ; cachinnans) as a model group for recent Holarctic vertebrate radiations
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Genetic divergence and evolution of reproductive isolation in eastern Mediterranean water frogs
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Inferring multiple Corsican Limax (Pulmonata: Limacidae) radiations : a combined approach using morphology and molecules
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Palaeogeography or sexual selection: which factors promoted Cretan land snail radiations?
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Non-ecological radiations in acoustically communicating grasshoppers?
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Beyond sympatric speciation : radiation of sailfin silverside fishes in the Malili Lakes (Sulawesi)
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The species flocks of the viviparous freshwater gastropod Tylomelania (Mollusca: Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) in the ancient lakes of Sulawesi, Indonesia : the role of geography, trophic morphology and color as driving forces in adaptive radiation
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Speciation and radiation in a river : assessing the morphological and genetic differentiation in a species flock of viviparous gastropods (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae)
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The neglected side of the coin : non-adaptive radiations in spring snails (Bythinella spp.)
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Buchausg. u.d.T. Evolution in action Berlin : Springer, 2010 ISBN 9783642124242
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Keywords:
Evolution
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Berlin
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Evolution
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Berlin
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