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If selective pressures vary across space, then microevolutionary responses may drive adaptive divergence among populations, i.e. local adaptation (LA; Kawecki and Ebert 2004).

Parasitism can be a persistent selective force in freshwater fish populations [24] and may drive adaptive divergence between sympatric fish species [12], [14], [28].

Enhanced innate immunity promoted by the environment may drive adaptive immunity by impairing regulatory and stimulating pathogenic T cell immunity.

The wide elevational distribution of P. w. bulomachus may provide a good system for addressing how divergent selection pressures posed by a steep elevational gradient may drive adaptive differentiation between populations living at different elevations.

Along these lines it is interesting to note that a high percentage of ageing associated mutations in stem cells affect regulators of the epigenome (Corces-Zimmerman et al., 2014), which may drive adaptive responses and clonal selection of stem cells in ageing tissues.

We observed amino acid divergence exceeding nucleotide divergence in regions affected by frameshift-inducing indels, suggesting that these indels may either drive adaptive protein evolution or initiate gene degradation.

The accumulation of disparity with species diversity may drive further adaptive speciation as a positive feedback.

Some of these selective pressures also may drive the adaptive evolution of other genes involved in GSC regulation.

We propose that local host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics may have driven adaptive divergence in MHC alleles, influencing odor-mediated mate choice and leading to reproductive isolation.

Thus, mutation of any single gene may cause a genomic imbalance, with consequences sufficient to drive adaptive genetic changes.

Specific signaling pathways are thought to drive adaptive versus maladaptive programs of gene and protein expression that contribute to these abnormalities and the balance between these may determine whether the heart fails [204 206].