Examples of natural selection in pocket mice

What do rock pocket mice eat

This activity serves to reinforce concepts of variation and natural selection presented in the BioInteractive short film The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection and Adaptation.
examples of natural selection in pocket mice

The making of the fittest: natural selection and adaptation answers

Explore how a selection pressure of dark coloured surfaces on light coloured pocket mice has resulted in a natural selection for darker coloured pocket mice that are better camouflaged .


Rock pocket mice natural selection

Michael Nachman, working in the field and lab, has quantified predation on rock pocket mice and identified adaptive changes in coat-color genes that allow the mice to travel under the radar of .

Biointeractive the making of the fittest: natural selection and adaptation answers
Among these rocks lives the rock pocket mouse, which occurs in dark black and a light, sandy color.