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Traffic and transportation policies are coordinated to alleviate bottlenecks, and footpath preservation allows continued access to the fells and remote valleys.
It consists of only about eight studies of ecological selection, indications that diversification rates are associated with greater scope for sexual selection, selection signatures in a few genes that underlie genetic incompatibility, and a paucity of molecular evidence for bottlenecks (i.e.
Since we have all marveled (maybe grumbled might be a better word) at the way bottlenecks appear and disappear with no apparent cause, I sped through the story in hopes of discovering a telling insight.
Compared to free-living relatives, endosymbionts are thought to have reduced effective population sizes due to population bottlenecks upon transmission to host offspring and, in the case of obligate mutualists that coevolve with their hosts, limited opportunities for gene exchange.
But the evidence on the role of sexual selection is very indirect, and the high levels of genetic variation revealed in molecular studies argue against past bottlenecks only if this is ancestral variation, rather than variation generated anew since a possible bottleneck—a question that has been addressed in only a few cases.