Does evolutionary plasticity evolve?

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1008-1023

  Wagner, Andreas ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institute for Advanced Study Berlin   (Germany)

Author keywords

Developmental canalization; epigenetic system; epistatic gene interactions; gene networks; neutral mutations; transcriptional regulators

Indexed keywords

EPIGENETIC INTERACTION; EVOLUTIONARY PLASTICITY; MUTATION;

EID: 0029661331     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb02342.x     Document Type: Article

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