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Phenotypic plasticity can potentiate rapid evolutionary change.

Journal of theoretical biology - 21 Jan 2004

Behera Narayan, Nanjundiah Vidyanand

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Using a computational model of string-like haploid genotypes, we verify the conjecture (J. Theor. Biol. 188 (1997) 153) that phenotypic plasticity can speed up evolution. The corresponding real-life situation was realized by Waddington in experiments carried out on the fruit fly Drosophila. Waddington found that after selecting for an environmentally induced trait over a number of generations, a new,...

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PMID: 14643187
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2003.08.011

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