Strong phenotypic plasticity limits potential for evolutionary responses to climate change

Phenotypic plasticity—the ability to express multiple phenotypes from the same genome—is a widespread adaptation to environmental variability. Here, Oostra et al analyze transcriptomes of an African butterfly with distinct seasonal phenotypes, and observe lack of variation for plasticity, limiting p...

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Autores principales: Vicencio Oostra, Marjo Saastamoinen, Bas J. Zwaan, Christopher W. Wheat
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/08d530ece3e24c2fb95aa5f8f02728ff
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Sumario:Phenotypic plasticity—the ability to express multiple phenotypes from the same genome—is a widespread adaptation to environmental variability. Here, Oostra et al analyze transcriptomes of an African butterfly with distinct seasonal phenotypes, and observe lack of variation for plasticity, limiting potential for evolutionary responses to climate change.