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Transposons, environmental changes, and heritable induced phenotypic variability.
Chromosoma - 1 Aug 2014
Piacentini Lucia, Fanti Laura, Specchia Valeria, Bozzetti Maria Pia, Berloco Maria, Palumbo Gino, Pimpinelli Sergio
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The mechanisms of biological evolution have always been, and still are, the subject of intense debate and modeling. One of the main problems is how the genetic variability is produced and maintained in order to make the organisms adaptable to environmental changes and therefore capable of evolving. In recent years, it has been reported that, in flies and plants, mutations in Hsp90 gene are capable to induce, with...
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