The Interactive Fly

Mechanisms of Evolution

• Adaptive Mutation
• Adaptive Radiation
• Admixture, the mixing of genetically distinct populations
• Balancing Selection
• Evolution of Behavior
• Body Size
• Cis-regulatory evolution
• Conservation
• Coevolution - the evolutionary arms race between species
• Convergent Evolution
• Developmental Plasticity
• Disease and Parasite Resistence
• Divergence
• Dominance
• Epistasis
• Fitness
• Gene Drive
• Gene Duplication and the Evolution of New Genes
• Gene Flow
• Genome Size
• Genetic Drift
• Genome Size
• Haldane's Paradox - The cost of evolution
• Haploid selection
• Horizontal Gene Transfer
• Hybridization
• Inbreeding
• Isolation
• Reproductive Isolation, Hybrid Dysfunction, Hybrid Sterility
• Reproductive Isolation
• Karyotype evolution
• Life Style: From Symbiosis to Predation
• Linkage
• Metabolism
• Morphological Evolution
• Ploidy
• Polygenic Inheritance
• Population size
• Positive selection
• Protein Evolution
• Pseudogenization
• Purifying/Negative selection
• Rate of Evolution
• Recombination
• Regulatory Network Evolution
• Selection
• Sexual Selection and Sperm Competition
• Social Evolution and Altruism
• Speciation
• Systematics
• Evolutionary trade-offs
• Transposable Elements as affectors of molecular evolution
• Variation
• Adaptive Radiation

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