In: Nature Education Knowledge, 2011, vol. 3, no. 3, p. 1-10
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In: Science, 2007, vol. 318, p. 1255-1256
A theory of trade-offs to explain why we age has spurred 50 years of interdisciplinary research in evolution and molecular genetics.
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In: BioEssays, 2006, no. 28, p. 868-873
Whether evolutionary change can occur by genetic assimilation, or more generally by genetic accommodation, remains controversial. Here we examine some of the experimental evidence for both phenomena. Several experiments in Drosophila suggest that assimilation is possible, and a new paper1 shows that a color polyphenism in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, can evolve by genetic ...
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In: BioEssays, 2005, vol. 27, no. 10, p. 999-1010
Understandinghowtraits are integrated at the organismal level remains a fundamental problem at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology. Hormones, regulatory signaling molecules that coordinate multiple developmental and physiological processes, are major determinants underlying phenotypic integration. The probably best example for this is the lipid-like juvenile hormone (JH)...
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