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Polymorphism in heterogeneous environments, evolution of habitat selection and sympatric speciation: Soft and hard selection models (1993)

Meeûs, T. ; Michalakis, Y. ; Renaud, F. ; [et al.]

Springer

Evolutionary ecology 7 (1993), S. 175-198

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ISSN: 1573-8477

Keywords: polymorphism ; variable environments ; habitat selection ; speciation ; soft selection ; hard selection

Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Topics: Biology

Notes: Summary The adaptation to a variable environment has been studied within soft and hard selection frameworks. It is shown that an epistatically determined habitat preference, following a Markovian process, always leads to the maintenance of an adaptive polymorphism, in a soft selection context. Although local mating does not alter the conditions for polymorphism maintenance, it is shown that, in that case, habitat selection also leads to the evolution of isolated reproductive units within each available habitat. Habitat selection, however, cannot evolve in the total absence of adaptive polymorphism. This represents a theoretical problem for all models assuming habitat selection to be an initially fixed trait, and means that within a soft selection framework, all the available habitats will be exploited, even the less favourable ones. On the other hand, polymorphism cannot be maintained when selection is hard, even when all individuals select their habitat. Here, the evolution of habitat selection does not need any prerequisite polymorphism, and always leads to the exploitation of only one habitat by the most specialized genotype. It appears then that hard selection can account for the existence of empty habitat and for an easier evolution of habitat specialization.

Type of Medium: Electronic Resource

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01239387

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Up-regulation of aFGF expression in quiescent cells is related to cell survival (1994)

Renaud, F. ; Oliver, L. ; Desset, S. ; [et al.]

New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell

Journal of Cellular Physiology 158 (1994), S. 435-443

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ISSN: 0021-9541

Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology

Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000

Topics: Biology , Medicine

Notes: Exogenously administrated acidic FGF modulates the proliferation of several cell types, controls cell differentiation, and promotes cell survival. Most cells that are sensitive to exogenous aFGF are also capable of expressing it at very low levels. Thus in order to establish the role of endogenous aFGF as a mitogenic, differentiation, or survival factor, we studied the regulation of aFGF expression by evaluating the level of mRNA by PCR amplification and the concentration of protein by Enzyme Immuno Assay (EIA). In the lens, the amount of aFGF transcripts in nondividing cells of the central epithelium and in the differentiated fiber cells located at the periphery of the lens is similar, suggesting that endogenous aFGF is not involved with lens differentiation. In cultures, depending on the growth conditions, the endogenous aFGF expressed by Bovine Epithelial Lens (BEL) cells is sub ect to modulation. Cells arrested either by contact inhibition or by serum deprivation express more aFGF transcripts and protein than in exponentially growing cells, implying that endogenous aFGF has no mitogenic role under these conditions. In serum-deprived cells, the addition of specific aFGF antisense primers inhibits endogenous aFGF express on and leads to the death of these cells. These results associated with the higher expression of aFGF in nondividing BEL cells, suggesting that, contrary to exogenous aFGF, endogenous aFGF is not a mitogenic factor but a survival factor.

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