Article
The new mutation theory of phenotypic evolution.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 24 Jul 2007
Nei Masatoshi
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies of developmental biology have shown that the genes controlling phenotypic characters expressed in the early stage of development are highly conserved and that recent evolutionary changes have occurred primarily in the characters expressed in later stages of development. Even the genes controlling the latter characters are generally conserved, but there is a large component of neutral or nearly...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Gene Dosage
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Gene Regulatory Networks
- Humans
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Proteins
- Signal Transduction