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Natural selection canalizes expression variation of environmentally induced plasticity-enabling genes.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Nov 2014
Shaw Joseph R, Hampton Thomas H, King Benjamin L, Whitehead Andrew, Galvez Fernando, Gross Robert H, Keith Nathan, Notch Emily, Jung Dawoon, Glaholt Stephen P, Chen Celia Y, Colbourne John K, Stanton Bruce A
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Many organisms survive fluctuating and extreme environmental conditions by manifesting multiple distinct phenotypes during adulthood by means of developmental processes that enable phenotypic plasticity. We report on the discovery of putative plasticity-enabling genes that are involved in transforming the gill of the euryhaline teleost fish, Fundulus heteroclitus, from its freshwater to its seawater gill-type, a...
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