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adaptive polymorphism — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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adaptive polymorphism

Scope: evolution

Papers: 4 | Mentions: 4

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Knowledge graph centered on adaptive polymorphism with 70 nodes and 137 connections. Top connected: Bombus, Bombus terrestris, Bombus appositus, Bombus impatiens, Bombus vosnesenskii.

Definition

Genetic variation maintained in populations by natural selection where different alleles are favored under different conditions

Related Terms (3)

shared ancestral polymorphismspolymorphismallelic variants

Publications (4)

Genetic basis of an adaptive polymorphism controlling butterfly silver iridescence

2025Current Biologycentral

Biofluorescence in Polymorphic Tiger Salamanders ( Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum)

Genes Suggest Ancestral Colour Polymorphisms Are Shared across Morphologically Cryptic Species in Arctic Bumblebees

2015PLoS Onecentral

A genetic polymorphism evolving in parallel in two cell compartments and in two clades

2013BMC Evolutionary Biologycentral

Related Concepts (10)

frequency-dependent selection

theory2 shared papers

balancing selection

process1 shared paper

intraspecific variation

phenomenon1 shared paper

facultative paedomorphosis

process1 shared paper

ecological speciation

process1 shared paper

hybridization

process1 shared paper

gene coalescence

theory1 shared paper

genome-wide association study

methodology1 shared paper

animal communication

process1 shared paper

metabarcoding

measurement1 shared paper

Frequently Associated Species

Lepidoptera

chickens

Gallus gallus

Phasianidae1 paper

cottonwood

Ambystoma tigrinum

Ambystoma

Ambystomatidae1 paper

Bos taurus

Colias butterflies

Homo sapiens

Hominidae1 paper

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