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Non-adaptive plasticity potentiates rapid adaptive evolution of gene expression in nature

Non-adaptive plasticity potentiates rapid adaptive evolution of gene expression in nature

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Non-adaptive plasticity potentiates rapid adaptive evolution of gene expression in nature

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Non-adaptive plasticity potentiates rapid adaptive evolution of gene expression in nature

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London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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Nature (London), 2015-09, Vol.525 (7569), p.372-375

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English

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London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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Experimentally transplanting guppies to evolve in a novel, predator-free environment reveals that the direction of plasticity in gene expression is usually opposite to the direction of adaptive evolution; that is, those genes whose expression changes are disadvantageous are more strongly selected upon than those whose changes are advantageous.
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Non-adaptive plasticity potentiates rapid adaptive evolution of gene expression in nature

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1713947212

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1713947212

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0028-0836

E-ISSN

1476-4687

DOI

10.1038/nature15256

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