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Decreased Evolutionary Plasticity as a Result of Phylogenetic Immobilization and Its Ecological Significance

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This review addresses the phylogenetic immobilization phenomenon first described by I.I. Schmalhausen: decreased evolutionary plasticity as a result of stabilizing selection and deleterious mutations with habitat-specific fitness effects. Examples of immobilization are examined and their classification proposed. The role of environmental stability and morphological conservatism in the immobilization development is assessed. The applicability of the immobilization concept for the solution of evolutionary theory issues and the possibility of using immobilization for breeding purposes and the conservation of taxa with low evolutionary plasticity is discussed.

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I am grateful to Yu.P. Altukhov, V.S. Artamonova, I.N. Bolotov, V.E. Gokhman, Yu.Yu. Dgebuadze, Yu.P. Zelinsky, A.G. Kreslavsky, D.L. Lajus, A.B. Savinov, V.M. Spitsyn, V.V. Suslov, and V.S. Fridman for the discussion of topics addressed in this study.

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This study was performed in the framework of the state assignment (Topic 6. Ecology and Biodiversity of Aquatic Communities, no. 0109-2018-0076 AAAA-A18-118042490059-5) and partially supported by Program no. 41 “Biodiversity of Natural Systems and Biological Resources of Russia” of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Basic Research Program “Promising Physical and Chemical Technologies of Special Purposes” of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (project led by I.N. Bolotov).

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Makhrov, A.A. Decreased Evolutionary Plasticity as a Result of Phylogenetic Immobilization and Its Ecological Significance. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 12, 405–417 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S199542551905007X

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