Historical and contingent factors affect re-evolution of a complex feature lost during mass extinction in communities of digital organisms

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1335-1357

  Yedid, G ^a,b   Ofria, C A ^c   Lenski, R E ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex features; Contingency; Digital organisms; Experimental evolution; Extinction; Pre extinction clade; Re evolution; Replay experiment; Stochastic factor; Structural constraints

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLADISTICS; MASS EXTINCTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SOFTWARE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 49549084325     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01564.x     Document Type: Article

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