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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Spea bombifrons
SUBMITTER: Aaron Leichty
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-3324 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Leichty Aaron R AR Pfennig David W DW Jones Corbin D CD Pfennig Karin S KS
Integrative and comparative biology 20120423 1
Phenotypic plasticity--the capacity of a single genotype to produce different phenotypes in response to varying environmental conditions--is widespread. Yet, whether, and how, plasticity impacts evolutionary diversification is unclear. According to a widely discussed hypothesis, plasticity promotes rapid evolution because genes expressed differentially across different environments (i.e., genes with "biased" expression) experience relaxed genetic constraint and thereby accumulate variation faste ...[more]