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The character concept in evolutionary biology
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Characters, Units and Natural Kinds: An Introduction to the Character Concept and the Mechanistic Architecture of Characters explains the evolutionary Origin of Characters.Abstract:
Foreword by Richard Lewontin Characters, Units and Natural Kinds: An Introduction I. Historical Roots of the Character Concept II. New Approaches to the Character Concept III. Operationalizing the Detection of Characters IV. The Mechanistic Architecture of Characters V. The Evolutionary Origin of Charactersread more
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Behavioral syndromes: an ecological and evolutionary overview.
TL;DR: The existence of behavioral syndromes focuses the attention of behavioral ecologists on limited (less than optimal) behavioral plasticity and behavioral carryovers across situations, rather than on optimal plasticity in each isolated situation.
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Integrating animal temperament within ecology and evolution.
Denis Réale,Simon M. Reader,Simon M. Reader,Daniel Sol,Daniel Sol,Peter T. McDougall,Niels Jeroen Dingemanse +6 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that temperament can and should be studied within an evolutionary ecology framework and provided a terminology that could be used as a working tool for ecological studies of temperament, which includes five major temperament trait categories: shyness‐boldness, exploration‐avoidance, activity, sociability and aggressiveness.
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Phenomics: the next challenge.
TL;DR: Phenomics should be recognized and pursued as an independent discipline to enable the development and adoption of high-throughput and high-dimensional phenotyping.
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From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a brief history of animals and their development, including the genetic toolkit for development. But they do not discuss the evolution of the toolkit itself.
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The road to modularity
TL;DR: Although there is an emerging agreement that organisms have a modular organization, the main open problem is the question of whether modules arise through the action of natural selection or because of biased mutational mechanisms.
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Development, plasticity and evolution of butterfly eyespot patterns
Paul M. Brakefield,Julie Gates,David N. Keys,Fanja Kesbeke,Wijngaarden Pj,Antónia Monteiro,Antónia Monteiro,Sean B. Carroll +7 more
TL;DR: Species comparisons and selection experiments suggest that the evolution of eyespot patterns can occur rapidly through modulation of different stages of this pathway, and requires only single, or very few, changes in regulatory genes.
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Novelty in evolution: restructuring the concept
Gerd B. Müller,Günter P. Wagner +1 more
TL;DR: In the frequent fits of anger to which the males especially are subject, the eftbrts of theirinner feelings cause the fluids to flow more strongly towards that part of their head; in somethere is hence deposited a secretion of horny matter, and in others of bony matter mixed with horny matter which gives rise to solid protuberances.
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Pattern formation and eyespot determination in butterfly wings
Sean B. Carroll,Julie Gates,David N. Keys,Stephen W. Paddock,Grace Panganiban,Jane E. Selegue,James A. Williams +6 more
TL;DR: Eyespots, which form from discrete developmental organizers, are marked by Distal-less gene expression, and appear to be generated by a process similar to, and perhaps evolved from, proximodistal pattern formation in insect appendages.
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Phenotypic plasticity, seasonal climate and the population biology of Bicyclus butterflies (Satyridae) in Malawi
Paul M. Brakefield,Nico Reitsma +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the adult butterflies have a comparatively long life expectancy and are quite sedentary, and a hypothesis linking the polyphenism to seasonal changes in resting background and selection for crypsis is discussed.
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Ultrabithorax function in butterfly wings and the evolution of insect wing patterns
Scott D. Weatherbee,H. Frederik Nijhout,Laura W. Grunert,Georg Halder,Ron Galant,Jayne E. Selegue,Sean B. Carroll +6 more
TL;DR: A butterfly homeotic mutant 'Hindsight', in which portions of the ventral hindwing pattern are transformed to ventral forewing identity, is analyzed, and the regulation of target genes by the Ultrabithorax (Ubx) gene product in Lepidopteran and Dipteran hindwings is compared.