The adaptive invasion of epialleles in a heterogeneous environment.

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The evolution of transgenerational epigenetic adaptation is driven by the invasion and stable inheritance of epialleles. Here, we describe a population-genetic model subject to environmentally-induced epigenetic effects in order to investigate the conditions under which an epigenetically modifiable allele (epiallele) can invade a population insensitive to such cues. Here, epigenetically modifiable individuals...

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