The genomics of coloration provides insights into adaptive evolution

A Orteu, CD Jiggins - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Coloration is an easily quantifiable visual trait that has proven to be a highly tractable system
for genetic analysis and for studying adaptive evolution. The application of genomic …

Genomics of developmental plasticity in animals

E Lafuente, P Beldade - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Developmental plasticity refers to the property by which the same genotype produces
distinct phenotypes depending on the environmental conditions under which development …

Beyond buying time: the role of plasticity in phenotypic adaptation to rapid environmental change

RJ Fox, JM Donelson, C Schunter… - … transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How populations and species respond to modified environmental conditions is critical to
their persistence both now and into the future, particularly given the increasing pace of …

[LIVRE][B] Phenotypic plasticity & evolution: causes, consequences, controversies

DW Pfennig - 2021 - library.oapen.org
Phenotypic plasticity–the ability of an individual organism to alter its features in direct
response to a change in its environment–is ubiquitous. Understanding how and why this …

Selection on adaptive and maladaptive gene expression plasticity during thermal adaptation to urban heat islands

SC Campbell-Staton, JP Velotta, KM Winchell - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Phenotypic plasticity enables a single genotype to produce multiple phenotypes in response
to environmental variation. Plasticity may play a critical role in the colonization of novel …

An approximate full-likelihood method for inferring selection and allele frequency trajectories from DNA sequence data

AJ Stern, PR Wilton, R Nielsen - PLoS Genetics, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Most current methods for detecting natural selection from DNA sequence data are limited in
that they are either based on summary statistics or a composite likelihood, and as a …

Plastic responses to novel environments are biased towards phenotype dimensions with high additive genetic variation

DWA Noble, R Radersma… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Environmentally induced phenotypes have been proposed to initiate and bias adaptive
evolutionary change toward particular directions. The potential for this to happen depends in …

Mechanisms of protein evolution

V Jayaraman, S Toledo‐Patiño, L Noda‐García… - Protein …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
How do proteins evolve? How do changes in sequence mediate changes in protein
structure, and in turn in function? This question has multiple angles, ranging from …

Analysis of the genetic loci of pigment pattern evolution in vertebrates

J Elkin, A Martin, V Courtier‐Orgogozo… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Vertebrate pigmentation patterns are amongst the best characterised model systems for
studying the genetic basis of adaptive evolution. The wealth of available data on the genetic …

[PDF][PDF] Buying time: Plasticity and population persistence

SE Diamond, RA Martin - Phenotypic plasticity & evolution, 2021 - library.oapen.org
As the environment changes, populations can respond by adapting via evolutionary change.
If the rate or magnitude of environmental change is too great for evolution to keep pace, then …