In our study we detect signatures for the influence of evolutionary history on mammal diversity patterns in Asia.
What this actually means is that the index looks for degree of influence of evolutionary similarities deriving from parallel evolution, convergence through different evolutionary pathways, and potentially, character state reversal (O'Brien and Lyman 2003).
Our findings also contributed to identify a starting point for future work investigating the influence of evolutionary forces on structural divergence of protein coding sequences.
As 6000 years of human influence affords scope for evolutionary change, we ask: is this a trait that Calluna brought into the heathlands or has it evolved there?
In this case, the rate of reproduction, r, also influences the potential for evolutionary rescue, as it impacts both population growth and rate of evolution (Eqns 1 and 2, respectively).
To account for the influence of shared evolutionary history on our measured plant traits, we used phylocom software [54] to estimate a community phylogeny based on a compiled angiosperm phylogeny (P.F. Stevens, Angiosperm Phylogeny website http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/ accessed November 2009).
A suite of models was used to test for the influence of different evolutionary forces shaping mitogenome variation within and among species.
Therefore, such tight physically paired coevolving residues at otherwise conserved (and therefore presumably functionally critical) sites are unlikely to have occurred without the influence of strong positive selection for evolutionary redesign.
While there are relatively fewer non-apicomplexa genes in the Toxoplasma abundance class, the genes represented appear to reflect shared eukaryotic biology (Fig. 2C), supporting the view that individual mRNA levels are influenced by evolutionary selection for cellular fitness [ 39].
The very early divergence of the major fungal phyla may account for this asymmetric influence of past evolutionary history.
Here we proposed that the very early divergence of the major fungal phyla may account for this asymmetrical influence of past evolutionary history.
