Adaptations and phenotypic plasticity:A caterpillar`s efforts

pbk-2100 Uncategorized August 8, 2019 0 Minutes

A caterpilalar changes color to match its background to survive and evolve?

Many of you have heard of the famous peppered moth Biston betularia, a paradigmatic case of evolution by natural selection. (The normally inconspicuous white, speckled moth evolved a cryptic black coloration when smog blackened tree trunks in industrial England; and the same thing happened in the United States. When anti-pollution laws were enacted in both […]

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M.Sc,Ph.D Ecology, with specialisation in plant population biology. Areas of interest Biodiversity,Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge,Underurilised species of food, nutrition, and ecological value. I am affiliated to Department of evolutionary biology and environmental studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Botany department,Natural History Museum,UK;Founder of Probioknowledge Platform , working on knowledge for providing bioknowledge solutions and services for complex and simple systems. View all posts by pbk-2100

Published August 8, 2019