Co-adaptation
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In biology, co-adaptation, or coadaptation refers to the mutual adaptation of:
- Species: see mutualism, symbiosis
- organs: see the evolution of the eye.
- Genes or gene complexes: see Linkage disequilibrium, epistasis
Co-adaptation may be indicative of co-evolution.
[edit] Examples
- The fig and the fig wasp.
- Myrmica sabuleti and the Large Blue butterfly
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Coadaptation entry in a dictionary on evolution.
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