Genetic assimilation: A review of its potential proximate causes and evolutionary consequences

Annals of Botany

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 769-779

  Ehrenreich, Ian M ^a   Pfennig, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

canalization; cis and trans regulatory evolution; developmental robustness; Genetic accommodation; genetic assimilation; phenotypic plasticity; species diversity

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENETIC VARIATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84964931585     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcv130     Document Type: Review

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