Projektnummer

0054420

Zusammenfassung

Adaptation underlies much evolutionary diversity. Yet, we know little about the genetic architecture underlying adaptation, because studying the adaptive process often means the statistical detection of historical events under largely unknown conditions. But for traits evolving repeatedly that can be replicated in the laboratory, its genetic architecture becomes readily tractable. Most importantly, parallelism allows searches for the rules governing adaptation. Gigantism in house mouse represents an ideal system: it has occurred repeatedly during island colonisation and can be readily ...