An evolutionary frame of work to study physiological adaptation to high altitudes

How complex physiological systems evolve is one of the major questions in evolutionary physiology. For example, how traits interact at the physiological and genetic level, what are the roles of development and plasticity in Darwinian evolution, and eventually how physiological traits will evolve, re...

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Autores principales:	REZENDE,ENRICO L., GOMES,FERNANDO R., GHALAMBOR,CAMERON K., RUSSELL,GREGORY A., CHAPPELLl,MARK A.
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Sociedad de Biología de Chile 2005
Materias:	adaptation evolutionary processes natural selection life-history oxygen availability phenotypic plasticity
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0716-078X20050002000162014-08-12An evolutionary frame of work to study physiological adaptation to high altitudesREZENDE,ENRICO L.GOMES,FERNANDO R.GHALAMBOR,CAMERON K.RUSSELL,GREGORY A.CHAPPELLl,MARK A. adaptation evolutionary processes natural selection life-history oxygen availability phenotypic plasticity How complex physiological systems evolve is one of the major questions in evolutionary physiology. For example, how traits interact at the physiological and genetic level, what are the roles of development and plasticity in Darwinian evolution, and eventually how physiological traits will evolve, remains poorly understood. In this article we summarize the current frame of work evolutionary physiologists are employing to study the evolution of physiological adaptations, as well as the role of developmental and reversible phenotypic plasticity in this context. We also highlight representative examples of how the integration of evolutionary and developmental physiology, concomitantly with the mechanistic understanding of physiological systems, can provide a deeper insight on how endothermic vertebrates could cope with reduced ambient temperatures and oxygen availability characteristic of high altitude environments. In this context, high altitude offers a unique system to study the evolution of physiological traits, and we believe much can be gained by integrating theoretical and empirical knowledge from evolutionary biology, such as life-history theory or the comparative method, with the mechanistic understanding of physiological processesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad de Biología de ChileRevista chilena de historia natural v.78 n.2 20052005-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2005000200016en10.4067/S0716-078X2005000200016
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topic	adaptation evolutionary processes natural selection life-history oxygen availability phenotypic plasticity
spellingShingle	adaptation evolutionary processes natural selection life-history oxygen availability phenotypic plasticity REZENDE,ENRICO L. GOMES,FERNANDO R. GHALAMBOR,CAMERON K. RUSSELL,GREGORY A. CHAPPELLl,MARK A. An evolutionary frame of work to study physiological adaptation to high altitudes
description	How complex physiological systems evolve is one of the major questions in evolutionary physiology. For example, how traits interact at the physiological and genetic level, what are the roles of development and plasticity in Darwinian evolution, and eventually how physiological traits will evolve, remains poorly understood. In this article we summarize the current frame of work evolutionary physiologists are employing to study the evolution of physiological adaptations, as well as the role of developmental and reversible phenotypic plasticity in this context. We also highlight representative examples of how the integration of evolutionary and developmental physiology, concomitantly with the mechanistic understanding of physiological systems, can provide a deeper insight on how endothermic vertebrates could cope with reduced ambient temperatures and oxygen availability characteristic of high altitude environments. In this context, high altitude offers a unique system to study the evolution of physiological traits, and we believe much can be gained by integrating theoretical and empirical knowledge from evolutionary biology, such as life-history theory or the comparative method, with the mechanistic understanding of physiological processes
author	REZENDE,ENRICO L. GOMES,FERNANDO R. GHALAMBOR,CAMERON K. RUSSELL,GREGORY A. CHAPPELLl,MARK A.
author_facet	REZENDE,ENRICO L. GOMES,FERNANDO R. GHALAMBOR,CAMERON K. RUSSELL,GREGORY A. CHAPPELLl,MARK A.
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title	An evolutionary frame of work to study physiological adaptation to high altitudes
title_short	An evolutionary frame of work to study physiological adaptation to high altitudes
title_full	An evolutionary frame of work to study physiological adaptation to high altitudes
title_fullStr	An evolutionary frame of work to study physiological adaptation to high altitudes
title_full_unstemmed	An evolutionary frame of work to study physiological adaptation to high altitudes
title_sort	evolutionary frame of work to study physiological adaptation to high altitudes
publisher	Sociedad de Biología de Chile
publishDate	2005
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An evolutionary frame of work to study physiological adaptation to high altitudes

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