Local adaptation arises as a result of selection by the local environment favoring phenotypes that enhance fitness. Geographic patterns of phenotypic variation are in part due to this selective process. Classically, the genetic basis of those phenotypes has been studied in plant populations using a quantitative genetic approach in which plants from different source populations are grown in comm...

Although crucial for the understanding of adaptive evolution, genetically resolved examples of local adaptation are rare. To maximize survival and reproduction in their local environment, hosts should resist their local parasites and pathogens. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) with its key function in parasite resistance represents an ideal candidate to investigate parasite-mediated l...

We specify and implement an efficient ATM data communications’ platform using a broadband connectionless protocol and ATM Adaptation Layer 5. The implementation is performed on a Telia Research ATM experimental network. One important design policy is to keep things “simple”, mainly in order to demonstrate that the introduction of ATM technology into LANs can be an evolutionary process that resp...

The paper proposes two new approaches for measuring adaptation between dialogs. These approaches permit measurement of adaptation both to conversational partner (partner adaptation) and to the local dialog context (recency adaptation), and can be used with different types of feature. We used these measures to study adaptation in the Maptask corpus of spoken dialogs. We show that for syntactic f...