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A climate for contemporary evolution

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Title
A climate for contemporary evolution
Published in
BMC Biology, November 2010
DOI 10.1186/1741-7007-8-136
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David Skelly

Abstract

A new study of divergence in freshwater fish provides strong evidence of rapid, temperature-mediated adaptation. This study is particularly important in the ongoing debate over the extent and significance of evolutionary response to climate change because divergence has occurred in relatively few generations in spite of ongoing gene flow and in the aftermath of a significant genetic bottleneck, factors that have previously been considered obstacles to evolution. Climate change may thus be more likely to foster contemporary evolutionary responses than has been anticipated, and I argue here for the importance of investigating their possible occurrence.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 5%
Portugal 2 4%
Brazil 1 2%
Germany 1 2%
United Kingdom 1 2%
Sweden 1 2%
Unknown 46 84%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 25%
Researcher 13 24%
Professor 6 11%
Other 4 7%
Student > Master 4 7%
Other 11 20%
Unknown 3 5%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 38 69%
Environmental Science 3 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 5%
Mathematics 2 4%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 2 4%