Article
Non-adaptive plasticity potentiates rapid adaptive evolution of gene expression in nature.
Nature - 17 Sept 2015
Ghalambor Cameron K, Hoke Kim L, Ruell Emily W, Fischer Eva K, Reznick David N, Hughes Kimberly A
Abstract excerpt
Phenotypic plasticity is the capacity for an individual genotype to produce different phenotypes in response to environmental variation. Most traits are plastic, but the degree to which plasticity is adaptive or non-adaptive depends on whether environmentally induced phenotypes are closer or further away from the local optimum. Existing theories make conflicting predictions about whether plasticity constrains or...
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