Evolución rápida de una especie nativa después de la invasión por un congénero

Y E Stuart1, T S Campbell2, P A Hohenlohe3

  • 1Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. yestuart@utexas.edu.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 25, 2014
PubMed
Resumen

Las especies invasoras pueden impulsar una rápida evolución. El lagarto Anolis Anolis carolinensis evolucionó a toepads más grandes en solo 20 generaciones después de la llegada del invasor Anolis sagrei, lo que demuestra una rápida evolución adaptativa.

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