Trait evolution

Kirchner, J.W., Roy, B. A. Evolutionary implications of host-pathogen specificity fitness consequences of pathogen virulence traits. Evolut Ecol Res 2002 4 27-48. 

Price T, Schluter D 1991 On the low heritability of life history traits. Evolution 45 853-861 Rowe L, Houle D 1996 The lek paradox and the capture of genetic variance by condition dependent traits. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 263 1415—1421 Taylor PD, Williams GC 1982 The lek paradox is not resolved. Theor Pop Biol 22 392—409 Wilkinson GS, Reillo 1994 Female choice response to artificial selection on an exaggerated male trait in a stalk-eyed fly. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 255 1—6... 

Rainey, F. 1946. Quinine hunters in Ecuador. National Geographic Magazine 89 341-363. Rajakaruna, N., Siddiqui, M. Y., Whitton, J., Bohm, B. A. and Glass, A. D. M. 2003. Differential responses to Na+/K+ and Ca2+/Mg2+ in two edaphic races of Lasthenia californica (Asteraceae) complex A case for parallel evolution of physiological traits. New Phytol. 

Birkhead, T. R., Pellatt, E. J., Matthews, I. M., Roddis, N. J., Hunter, F. M., McPhie, F., and Castillo-Juarez, H. 2006. Genic capture and the genetic basis of sexually selected traits in the zebra finch. Evolution 60 2389-2398. 

Price, D. K. and Burley, N. T. 1993. Constraints on the evolution of attractive traits Genetic (co)variance of zebra finch bill colour. Heredity 71 405 -12. 

Utermann G. Genetic architecture and evolution of the lipoprotein(a) trait. Curr Opin Lipidol 1999 10 133-141. 

Evolution of chemical defenses according to the optimal defense theory presumes, in addition to costly defenses, that there is genetic variation for the defensive metabolites, that herbivory is the major selective agent for such metabolites, and that the chemical trait in question is efficient in reducing herbivory (Stamp 2003). Research on macroalgal chemical defenses has strongly emphasized the last precondition, which has mainly been studied by testing the deterrence effects of secondary metabolites in bioassays. The defensive role for the trait has been assumed on the basis of deterrence it provides. Veiy little research on the first two... 

A powerful approach to elucidating the ecology and evolution of any phenotypic trait can come from an explicit manipulation of genetic differences in the trait among populations of a single species, a research focus of evolutionary ecologists... 

Evolution by natural selection was first explained by Charles Darwin in his book On ttie Origin of Species (1859). Briefly stated, the theory suggests that evolution occurs through heritable propagation of adaptive traits. Nature produces a large variation in the traits of organisms. Those traits that are in some way adaptive, increasing the survival and... 

Schemske DW, Bradshaw HD (1999) Pollinator preference and the evolution of floral traits in monkeyflowers (Mimulus). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 96 11910-11915 Wang HC, Huang XM, Hu GB, Yang Z, Huang HB (2005) A comparative study of chlorophyll loss and its related mechanism during fruit maturation in the pericarp of fast- and slow-degreening litchi pericarp. Sci Hortic 106 247-257...

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