Rapid evolution of Phenotypic plasticity and shifting thresholds of genetic assimilation in the nematode Caenorhabditis remanei

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1103-1112

  Sikkink, Kristin L ^a   Reynolds, Rose M ^a,b   Ituarte, Catherine M ^a   Cresko, William A ^a   Phillips, Patrick C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental evolution; Genetic assimilation; Heat shock proteins; Heat stress; Hormesis; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CHANGE; HEAT SHOCK; HEAT STRESS; HEAT TOLERANCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HORMESIS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RNA SEQUENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84902590971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.010553     Document Type: Article

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