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Cities as evolutionary experiments: As cities and other man-made environments encroach on natural settings, species evolve to cope.

Karl F Gruber1.   

Abstract

Cities exert strong selective pressures on plants and animals to adapt to urban life. They provide a unique testing ground for studying evolution in action.
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Year:  2019        PMID： 31657127      PMCID： PMC6831994          DOI： 10.15252/embr.201949401

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  EMBO Rep        ISSN： 1469-221X            Impact factor:   8.807


  7 in total

1.  Culex pipiens in London Underground tunnels: differentiation between surface and subterranean populations.

Authors:  K Byrne; R A Nichols
Journal:  Heredity (Edinb)       Date:  1999-01       Impact factor: 3.821

2.  Evolution in closely adjacent plant populations X: long-term persistence of prereproductive isolation at a mine boundary.

Authors:  J Antonovics
Journal:  Heredity (Edinb)       Date:  2006-04-26       Impact factor: 3.821

Review 3.  Speciation and the City.

Authors:  Ken A Thompson; Loren H Rieseberg; Dolph Schluter
Journal:  Trends Ecol Evol       Date:  2018-10-05       Impact factor: 17.712

4.  Reduced light avoidance in spiders from populations in light-polluted urban environments.

Authors:  Tomer J Czaczkes; Ana María Bastidas-Urrutia; Paolo Ghislandi; Cristina Tuni
Journal:  Naturwissenschaften       Date:  2018-10-30

5.  So much for the city: Urban-rural song variation in a widespread Asiatic songbird.

Authors:  Samuel D Hill; Achyut Aryal; Matthew D M Pawley; Weihong Ji
Journal:  Integr Zool       Date:  2018-03       Impact factor: 2.654

6.  Rapid evolution of seed dispersal in an urban environment in the weed Crepis sancta.

Authors:  P-O Cheptou; O Carrue; S Rouifed; A Cantarel
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2008-03-03       Impact factor: 11.205

7.  Urban sparrows respond to a sexually selected trait with increased aggression in noise.

Authors:  Jennifer N Phillips; Elizabeth P Derryberry
Journal:  Sci Rep       Date:  2018-05-14       Impact factor: 4.379
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