Phylogeny and life histories of the 'insectivora': Controversies and consequences
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The history of insectivore phylogenetics and systematics is reviewed, focusing on the relationships between the six extant families (Erinaceidae - hedgehogs and moonrats, Talpidae - moles and desmans, Soricidac - shres, Solenodontidae - solenodons, Tenrecidae - tenres and otter-shrews and Chrysochloridae - golden moles). It is examined how the various phylogenetic hypotheses influence the results of comparative analyses and the interpretation of insectivore life-history evolution.
Publication Name: Biological Reviews
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 1464-7931
Year: 2005
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Environments and evolution: Interactions between stress, resource inadequacy and energetic efficiency
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The balance between energetic costs under variable environments and energy from resources provides a model for interpreting evolutionary stasis, punctuational and gradual change. The key to understand evolutionary change is ecological with focus on energy available in a stressed world.
Publication Name: Biological Reviews
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 1464-7931
Year: 2005
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Conceptual bases for quantifying the role of the environment on gene evolution: the participation of positive selection and neutral evolution
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The article discusses the surveying and re-evaluating data in order to estimate the role of environmental changes on the course of species and genomic evolution.
Publication Name: Biological Reviews
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 1464-7931
Year: 2007
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