Sentence examples for variation and speciation from inspiring English sources

Geoff Oxford is a biologist at the University of York and an authority on both colour variation and speciation in spiders.

However, perhaps we do know enough to help educators recognize seemingly odd or bullheaded thinking as clues to very powerful (and fascinating!) psychological processes that can allow us to get inside the learners' heads and better understand why they are resistant or seem unable to grasp basic concepts such as natural selection, random variation, and speciation.

Genome studies have demonstrated different factors are responsible for genome size variation and speciation.

The present study provides insights into the evolution and diversity of transposable elements in these parasites and the role they could have played during genomic variation and speciation.

Understanding how this diversity is generated is important for determining the role of chromosomal rearrangements in generating phenotypic variation and speciation.

Pinus sylvestris, P. mugo, P. uliginosa and P. uncinata are closely related but phenotypically and ecologically very distinct European pine species providing an excellent study system for analysis of the genetic basis of adaptive variation and speciation.

Geographic Variation, Speciation and Clines explores the origins and development of geographic variation, divergence, and speciation.

Hybridization and genomic introgression are repeatedly suggested to be important elements in evolutionary processes such as maintenance of genetic variation, adaptation and speciation [ 4- 6].

The program as well as its successive implementations has been used in the detection of rapid radiation in spiny lobsters (Palero et al., 2009), the inference of Africa pygmies demographic history (Batini et al., 2011), as well as the recombination rate variation and the speciation study in rodents (Nachman and Payseur, 2012).

In recent years, the use of comparative genomic approaches in a phylogenetic framework has shed much light on a variety of fundamental evolutionary questions, such as adaptive evolution [ 3, 50, 51], genetic variation [ 52– 55], and speciation [ 56– 58].

The genetic relationships among co-occurring cells have a major influence on the evolution of social traits and recent population genetic analysis found extensive genetic variation and possible cryptic speciation in one dictyostelid species \((Dictyostelium purpureum)\).