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Title: | A diversity of phenotypes, beyond species and genes |
Authors: | Minelli, Alessandro |
Keywords: | Phenotype Genotype-environment interaction |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Publisher: | Entomological Society of Malta |
Citation: | Minelli, A. (2017). A diversity of phenotypes, beyond species and genes. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Malta, 9, 21 |
Abstract: | According to the Convention on Biological Diversity (United Nations, 1992; art. 2), “Biological diversity” [...] includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.” The most popular estimations of biodiversity are based on the number of species, commonly, limited to one or a few taxa such as birds, butterflies or flowering plants, sometimes filtered through algorithms highlighting relational properties such as the reciprocal distance of the involved species within a phylogenetic tree. Eventually, from these measures of diversity based on the number of species, the concept of disparity was differentiated, this being an estimate of the taxon’s occupancy of a suitably defined morphospace. Despite these articulations and refinements of the original idea of biological diversity, all these concepts and measures remain essentially confined within a morphological perspective, eventually integrated by taking also genotypic variation into account. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/23692 |
Appears in Collections: | BulESM, 2017, Volume 9 BulESM, 2017, Volume 9 |
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