Taxon cycles refer to a biogeographical theory of how species evolve through range expansions and contractions over time associated with adaptive shifts in the ecology and morphology of species. The taxon cycle concept was explicitly formulated by biologist E. O. Wilson in 1961[1] after he surveyed the distributions, habitats, behavior and morphology of ant species in the Melanesian archipelago.[2]
^Wilson, Edward O. (1961). "The Nature of the Taxon Cycle in the Melanesian Ant Fauna". The American Naturalist. 95 (882): 169–193. doi:10.1086/282174. ISSN 0003-0147. JSTOR 2458389. S2CID 83701216.
^Wilson, Edward O. (1959). "Adaptive Shift and Dispersal in a Tropical Ant Fauna". Evolution. 13 (1): 122–144. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1959.tb02996.x. ISSN 1558-5646. S2CID 87203686.
Taxoncycles refer to a biogeographical theory of how species evolve through range expansions and contractions over time associated with adaptive shifts...
genetically distinct insular populations represents an entry into the taxoncycle, leading to the extinction of the insular endemic populations. Brown...
of woody plants. Within two months of the original emergence, the life cycle is complete and the adult cicadas die. Later in that same summer, the eggs...
Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member. A taxon may become functionally extinct before the death of its last member if...
this as a distinct Phytophthora species and it was named Phytophthora 'taxon Agathis' (abbreviated PTA). It was formally named Phytophthora agathidicida...
S2CID 131211543. Hug, L.A. & Roger, A.J. (2007). "The Impact of Fossils and Taxon Sampling on Ancient Molecular Dating Analyses". Molecular Biology and Evolution...
12th-century Latin poem Ysengrimus, is a major character in the Reynard Cycle, where he stands for the low nobility, whilst his adversary, Reynard the...
Davide; Olesen, Jørgen (2019). "Pancrustacean Evolution Illuminated by Taxon-Rich Genomic-Scale Data Sets with an Expanded Remipede Sampling". Genome...
"Distributional Patterns in St. Croix Sphaerodactylus Lizards: The TaxonCycle in Action". Biotropica. 11 (3): 189–195. doi:10.2307/2388038. ISSN 0006-3606...
their surface antigens Segregate (taxonomy), created when a taxon is split off from another taxon Chromosome segregation, the process that occurs during cell...
orders Mallophaga and Anoplura are within Psocoptera has led to the new taxon Psocodea. Phasmatodea and Embiidina have been suggested to form the Eukinolabia...
sister taxon to Hydrozoa, and does not group with myxozoans. Medusozoans differ from anthozoans in having a medusa stage in their life cycle. The basic...
viruses have been defined by the ICTV. The general taxonomic structure of taxon ranges and the suffixes used in taxonomic names are shown hereafter. As...
snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) for food. This leads to a prey-predator cycle, as the Canada lynx population responds to the cyclic rises and falls in...
accurate details of the construction of the egg packages, the development cycle, anatomy, and the function of the antennae. Although mantises are rarely...
ago and the leopard about 4.35 million years ago. The leopard is a sister taxon to a clade within Panthera, consisting of the lion and the jaguar. Results...
cell has two dissimilar flagella, and as the name of a taxon. The groups included in that taxon have however varied widely, creating the 'heterokont problem'...
than to lycophytes. "Pteridophyta" is thus no longer a widely accepted taxon, but the term pteridophyte remains in common parlance, as do pteridology...
Taxon. 52 (1): 101–104. doi:10.2307/3647306. JSTOR 3647306. Govaerts, R. (2003). "How many species of seed plants are there? – a response". Taxon. 52...
contributions to the island biogeography, including testing E. O. Wilson's TaxonCycle Concept, His most-cited scientific paper examined ecological communities...
The life cycle of a colony can be divided into the founding stage, the ergonomic stage, and the reproductive stage. Colonies show annual cycling. New nests...
in telogen and 1–2% in catagen. The cycle's length varies on different parts of the body. For eyebrows, the cycle is completed in around 4 months, while...
continents except Antarctica. Some previous works also included a family-level taxon called the Tibiceninae. The largest species is the Malaysian emperor cicada...
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