In evolutionary biology, adaptive radiation is a process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms,...

their environment, they are termed adaptive radiations. Perhaps the most familiar example of an evolutionary radiation is that of placental mammals immediately...

diverged to occupy different ecological niches (a process called adaptive radiation) and how sticklebacks have coevolved with their parasites. Most eco-evolutionary...

Mustelinae. Mustelid species diversity is often attributed to an adaptive radiation coinciding with the mid-Miocene climate transition. Contrary to expectations...

particle radiation consists of particles of non-zero rest energy, such as alpha radiation (α), beta radiation (β), proton radiation and neutron radiation acoustic...

suborder. Antarctic fish are best known for their uses in studying adaptive radiation, the ecological process that causes the rapid development of several...

anole lizards. Anolis lizards are some of the best examples of both adaptive radiation and convergent evolution. Populations of lizards on isolated islands...

nymphs for growth and development. Their diversity is the result of an adaptive radiation on these plants, whose cyanide-based defenses the bugs have overcome...

other finch. Their great morphological diversity is the result of adaptive radiation in an insular environment. Many have been driven to extinction since...

Diversity and Size Disparity in Musteloidea: Testing Patterns of Adaptive Radiation Using Molecular and Fossil-Based Methods". Systematic Biology. 67...

species boundaries. Adaptive radiation Species complex Ecological speciation Gittenberger, E. (1991-08-01). "What about non-adaptive radiation?". Biological...

alliance provides a convincing natural case study in evolution by adaptive radiation, with the greensword representing one extreme of the genus' plasticity...

evolutionary literature. Examples of divergence in nature are the adaptive radiation of the finches of the Galápagos, changes in mobbing behavior of the...

flowering plants in the Triassic (~200 million years ago), with an adaptive radiation in the Cretaceous so rapid that Darwin called it an "abominable mystery"...

"non-adaptive radiation" referring to diversification not accompanied by adaptation into various significantly different niches. Such radiations are explanation...

alliance. Botanist P. H. Raven referred to this radiation as "the best example of adaptive radiation in plants". Species in Argyroxiphium are perennial...

processes; the dung beetles, day geckos, and lemurs are all examples of adaptive radiation. Many bones (250 bones per square metre) of recently extinct vertebrates...

Hawaiian honeycreeper—warbler-niched-(adaptive radiation), genus H. virens–common amakihi. (See: List of adaptive radiated honeycreepers) Wilson, Eisner...

selected for three distinct traits, which played important roles in the adaptive radiation of terrestrial vertebrates: high maximum rate of aerobic metabolism...

evolutionary opportunities: in its wake, many groups underwent remarkable adaptive radiation—sudden and prolific divergence into new forms and species within the...

only be determined after the event. Adaptive evolution in the human genome Adaptive memory Adaptive mutation Adaptive system Anti-predator adaptation Body...

living in the environment. Such clusters form through a process of adaptive radiation where a single ancestral species colonises an island that has a variety...

driving forces in adaptive radiation." pp. 485–512 in: Glaubrecht, M. & Schneider H. eds. (2010). Evolution in Action: Adaptive Radiations and the Origins...

to adapt different environmental conditions and modes of life, it is called adaptive radiation. The gradual spreading of organisms with adaptive radiation...

believed that the lever mechanism is a key factor in the speciation, adaptive radiation, and diversity of this large genus. George Bentham was first to give...

modern primates, rodents, and carnivores appears to be part of an adaptive radiation that took place as mammals quickly evolved to take advantage of ecological...

1015–1028. doi:10.1002/tax.604006. Adams, Peter (Fall 2012). "Evolution, Adaptive Radiation and Vireya Rhododendrons - Part I" (PDF). Journal American Rhododendron...

Diversity and Size Disparity in Musteloidea: Testing Patterns of Adaptive Radiation Using Molecular and Fossil-Based Methods". Systematic Biology. 67...

(shared derived characters). Brocchinia has undergone a spectacular adaptive radiation in mechanisms of nutrient capture, apparently in response to the unusually...

Lehnebach, C.A. (2008), Phylogenetic Affinities, Species Delimitation and Adaptive Radiation of New Zealand Ranunculus (PDF), Palmerston North, New Zealand: Massey...