Phenotypic plasticity as a long-term memory easing readaptations to ancestral environments
Wei-Chin Ho, Diyan Li, Qing Zhu, Jianzhi Zhang
Abstract
, demonstrate that organisms generally "remember" their ancestral environments via phenotypic plasticity and reveal a mechanism by which past experience affects future evolution.
Topics & Concepts
Phenotypic plasticityBiologyAdaptation (eye)TranscriptomePhenotypeEvolutionary biologyPlasticityPhenotypic traitEcologyGeneticsGeneNeurosciencePhysicsGene expressionThermodynamicsGenetic diversity and population structureAnimal Behavior and ReproductionEvolution and Genetic Dynamics