Environmental epigenetics and a unified theory of the molecular aspects of evolution: a neo-Lamarckian concept that facilitates neo-Darwinian evolution

MK Skinner - Genome biology and evolution, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Environment has a critical role in the natural selection process for Darwinian evolution. The
primary molecular component currently considered for neo-Darwinian evolution involves …

Epigenomics of plant responses to environmental stress

S Kumar - Epigenomes, 2018 - mdpi.com
Genome-wide epigenetic changes in plants are being reported during development and
environmental stresses, which are often correlated with gene expression at the …

Genomic signatures of adaptation to wine biological ageing conditions in biofilm‐forming flor yeasts

AL Coi, F Bigey, S Mallet, S Marsit, G Zara… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The molecular and evolutionary processes underlying fungal domestication remain largely
unknown despite the importance of fungi to bioindustry and for comparative adaptation …

Gene expression evolves under a house-of-cards model of stabilizing selection

A Hodgins-Davis, DP Rice… - Molecular Biology and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Divergence in gene regulation is hypothesized to underlie much of phenotypic evolution, but
the role of natural selection in sha** the molecular phenotype of gene expression …

Epigenetics: history, present status and future perspective

S Kumar, AK Singh, T Mohapatra - Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant …, 2017 - isgpb.org
Epigenetics refers to the heritable changes in the pattern of gene expression resulting from
the modification of DNA bases, histone proteins and/or non-coding-RNA biogenesis without …

Testing the neutral hypothesis of phenotypic evolution

WC Ho, Y Ohya, J Zhang - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Although evolution by natural selection is widely regarded as the most important principle of
biology, it is unknown whether phenotypic variations within and between species are mostly …

Promoters Constrain Evolution of Expression Levels of Essential Genes in Escherichia coli

S Tsuru, N Hatanaka, C Furusawa - Molecular Biology and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Variability in expression levels in response to random genomic mutations varies among
genes, influencing both the facilitation and constraint of phenotypic evolution in organisms …

A comparison of the costs and benefits of bacterial gene expression

MN Price, KM Wetmore, AM Deutschbauer, AP Arkin - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
To study how a bacterium allocates its resources, we compared the costs and benefits of
most (86%) of the proteins in Escherichia coli K-12 during growth in minimal glucose …

The genotype–phenotype relationships in the light of natural selection

H Chen, CI Wu, X He - Molecular biology and evolution, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Although any genotype–phenotype relationships are a result of evolution, little is known
about how natural selection and neutral drift, two distinct driving forces of evolution, operate …

Application of unimodal probability distribution models for morphological phenoty** of budding yeast

Y Ohya, F Ghanegolmohammadi… - FEMS Yeast …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Morphological phenoty** of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has helped to
greatly clarify the functions of genes and increase our understanding of cellular functional …