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Pleiotropy in the wild: the dormancy gene DOG1 exerts cascading control on life cycles.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Mar 2013
Chiang George C K, Barua Deepak, Dittmar Emily, Kramer Elena M, de Casas Rafael Rubio, Donohue Kathleen
Abstract excerpt
In the wild, organismal life cycles occur within seasonal cycles, so shifts in the timing of developmental transitions can alter the seasonal environment experienced subsequently. Effects of genes that control the timing of prior developmental events can therefore be magnified in the wild because they determine seasonal conditions experienced by subsequent life stages, which can influence subsequent phenotypic...
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