Cline (biology) - Wikipedia
WEBIn biology, a cline is a measurable gradient in a single characteristic (or biological trait) of a species across its geographical range. [1] . Clines usually have a genetic (e.g. allele frequency, blood type ), or phenotypic (e.g. body size, skin pigmentation) character.
Clines and Continuous Variation | Encyclopedia.com
WEBIt is clearly a clinal pattern distributed through malarial regions of Africa, Europe, and Asia. Livingstone’s data demonstrated that continuous clinal variation occurs within populations and across their boundaries, in clear disproof of the validity of the idea of race.
Clinal - definition of clinal by The Free Dictionary
WEBDefine clinal. clinal synonyms, clinal pronunciation, clinal translation, English dictionary definition of clinal. n. A gradual change in a character or feature across the distributional range of a species or population, usually correlated with an environmental or...
Clinally Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
WEBnoun. ˈklīn. : a gradient of morphological or physiological change in a group of related organisms usually along a line of environmental or geographic transition. clinal. ˈklī-nᵊl. adjective. clinally. ˈklī-nə-lē. adverb. -cline. 2 of 2. noun combining form. : slope. monocline. Examples of cline in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web. Noun.
Clines | Encyclopedia.com
WEBMany human traits are clinally distributed, but they often require laboratory testing to discover their various manifestations. The most easily perceived trait that has a clinal distribution is skin color.
Clinal variation as a tool to understand climate change - PMC
WEBOct 11, 2022 · Since clinal variations represent active genomic responses at the population level they (clines) provide an immense power to address questions related to climatic change. With the fast pace of climate change i.e. warming, populations are also likely to exhibit rapid responses; at both the phenotypic and genotypic levels.
6.3 Classifying Human Variation – Human Biology
WEBBy the 1960s, scientists began to use a clinal approach to classify human variation. This approach maps variation in the frequency of traits or alleles over geographic regions or worldwide. Clinal maps for many genetic traits show variation that changes gradually from one geographic area to another.
Clinal Adaptation in the Marine Environment | SpringerLink
WEBJan 13, 2019 · Clinal adaptation is a particular form of local adaptation, where the adaptive phenotype varies continuously across a spatial or ecological gradient (Endler 1977 ).
Clinal variation as a tool to understand climate change
WEBOct 10, 2022 · We discuss clinal variation with respect to a wide variety of traits which could affect species fitness and also response to climate change . We highlight potential shortcomings in clinal studies and suggest how these could be addressed to understand species redistribution, clinal shift patterns.
Ecological genomics of local adaptation | Nature Reviews Genetics
WEBOct 18, 2013 · Multi-level patterns of genetic structure and isolation by distance in the widespread plant Mimulus guttatus. Article 08 July 2020. Main. Spatial environmental variation is ubiquitous, and...
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