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Meanings of divergent evolution in English

Russian
адаптивная эволюция
Portuguese
divergência evolutiva
Catalan
evolució divergent
Spanish
evolución divergente

Accumulation of differences between closely related species populations, leading to speciation.

      адаптивная эволюция
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      Examples for "divergent selection"
      Examples for "divergent selection"
      1
      Ecological speciation occurs when ecologically based, divergent selection causes the evolution of reproductive isolation.
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      2
      The LH F2 resource population originated from noninbred lines of mice that had undergone divergent selection for heat loss.
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      3
      Ecological character displacement occurs when competition imposes divergent selection on interacting species, causing divergence in traits associated with resource use.
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      4
      Genetic drift and divergent selection are predicted to be strong on islands and both could drive population divergence and speciation.
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      5
      In trial 2, divergent selection on the basis of Pharaoh quail BW decrease altered IMC crosslinking, leading to variability in meat tenderness of Pharaoh quail.
      Pubmed
      Usage of divergent evolution in English
      1
      Segregation is the essential condition on which divergent evolution is dependent.
      Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
      2
      However, 'rational' approaches using either natural divergent evolution or computational predictions based on chemical principles have been less successful.
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      3
      As this is not the case, there remains no alternative but to assume divergent evolution from an indifferent form.
      Darwin and Modern Science
      4
      The vast range of habitats and metabolisms that prokaryotes occupy today would thus reflect divergent evolution after such a restricting event.
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      5
      The age of isolation and divergent evolution is passing away, and that of international association and convergent social evolution has begun.
      Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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      Nation thus stimulates nation, each furnishing the other with important variations in ideas, customs, institutions, and mechanisms resulting from long-continued divergent evolution.
      Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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      Two separate 100-bp elements within the first NR2E1 intron were virtually identical between the three species, despite an estimated 450 million years of divergent evolution.
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