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Regulators of an ancient polyphenism evolved through episodic protein divergence and parallel gene radiations.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 26 Feb 2020
Biddle Joseph F, Ragsdale Erik J
Abstract excerpt
Polyphenism is a form of developmental plasticity that transduces environmental cues into discontinuous, often disparate phenotypes. In some cases, polyphenism has been attributed to facilitating morphological diversification and even the evolution of novel traits. However, this process is predicated on the origins and evolutionary maintenance of genetic mechanisms that specify alternate developmental networks....
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