Extinctions in heterogeneous environments and the evolution of modularity

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1964-1975

  Kashtan, Nadav ^a   Parter, Merav ^a   Dekel, Erez ^a   Mayo, Avi E ^a   Alon, Uri ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biological networks; Extinction recolonization; Genetic recombinations; Metapopulation; Modularity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; METAPOPULATION; RECOLONIZATION; RECOMBINATION; SUBPOPULATION; TIMESCALE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 68149110046     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00684.x     Document Type: Article

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