Evolutionary adaptations to new environments generally reverse plastic phenotypic changes

Evolutionary adaptations to new environments generally reverse plastic phenotypic changes

Contemporary climate change and terrestrial invertebrates: evolutionary versus plastic changes

To forecast the responses of species to future climate change, an understanding of the ability of species to adapt to long-term shifts in temperature is crucial. We present a review on evolutionary adaptation and phenotypic plasticity of temperature-related traits in terrestrial invertebrates. The evidence for adaptive evolution in melanization is good, but we caution that genetic determination...

The Repertoire and Dynamics of Evolutionary Adaptations to Controlled Nutrient-Limited Environments in Yeast

The experimental evolution of laboratory populations of microbes provides an opportunity to observe the evolutionary dynamics of adaptation in real time. Until very recently, however, such studies have been limited by our inability to systematically find mutations in evolved organisms. We overcome this limitation by using a variety of DNA microarray-based techniques to characterize genetic chan...

Sensory Adaptations of Fishes to Subterranean Environments

Caves and other subterranean habitats represent one of the most challenging environments on the planet. Other than salamanders, bony fishes are the only vertebrate group that has successfully colonized and are completely restricted to those habitats. Despite being known to science for over 150 years, only recently have cavefishes become model systems for evolutionary studies. Several cavefishes...

HyGLEAM - An Approach to Generally Applicable Hybridization of Evolutionary Algorithms

Most successful applications of Evolutionary Algorithms to real world problems employ some sort of hybridization, thus speeding up the optimization process but turning the general applicable Evolutionary Algorithm into a problem-specific tool. This paper proposes to combine Evolutionary Algorithms and generally applicable local searchers to get the best of both approaches: A fast, but robust to...