Environmental Stress as an Evolutionary Force

By A. Hoffmann, M. Hercus. 2000

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Micro- and macroevolution: scale and hierarchy in evolutionary biology and paleobiology (2000, background): “The potential role of highly variable environments in fostering evolutionary innovation (e.g., Parsons 1993, 1994; Hoffmann and Parsons 1997; Hoffmann and Hercus 2000) has gained a new developmental wrinkle with the finding that some regulatory molecules that suppress phenotypic variation can be…”
Experimental biology of coral reef ecosystems (2004, background): “While environmental stress can reduce fitness, it is believed that under certain conditions the same stress can result in positive, directional, selection for phenotypes that arose from the generation and maintenance of variability stimulated by that stress (Hoffmann and Hercus, 2000).”
Genetic variation across species’ geographical ranges: the central–marginal hypothesis and beyond (2008, background): “Moreover, the environmental stresses potentially experienced by peripheral populations may influence the generation and phenotypic expression of genetic variation (Hoffmann & Merilä 1999; Hoffmann & Hercus 2000).”