Co-adaptation

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In Biology, co-adaptation, or coadaptation refers to the mutual adoptation 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.

Examples

• The fig and the fig wasp.
• The red ant and the Large Blue butterfly

External links

• [Coadaptation entry] in a dictionary on evolution.

 

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