Phenotypic plasticity and evolution by genetic assimilation

By M. Pigliucci, C. Murren, C. Schlichting. Journal of Experimental Biology, 2006

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Subfields: Genetics, History and Philosophy of Science

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Effects of ocean acidification and elevated temperature on shell plasticity and its energetic basis in an intertidal gastropod (2013, background): “…are now having on environmental conditions in many ecosystems, those organisms that are more able to exhibit plastic responses may be more likely to adjust to, cope with and eventually adapt to broad scale disturbances, such as climate change (Pigliucci et al. 2006, Charmantier et al. 2008).”
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Prevalence, Mechanisms, and Implications for the Study of Heredity and Evolution (2009, neutral): “…an environmental inducer to a constitutive expression was called genetic assimilation (Waddington 1957; for recent discussion of the idea and its evaluation, see Pigliucci et al. 2006; for suggestions emphasizing its role in the evolution of behavior, see Avital and Jablonka 2000; Gottlieb 2002).”
The role of behavior in evolution: a search for mechanism (2008, background): “In this view, behavioral flexibility is thought to be crucial for enabling organisms to persist under novel environmental conditions (West-Eberhard 2003; Pigliucci et al. 2006; Badyaev 2007).”
Understanding variation in behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change: a conceptual overview (2013, background): “This idea is associated with the possibility of genetic assimilation or genetic accommodation, both of which have been suggested to be key parts of how plasticity influences evolution (West-Eberhard 2003; Pigliucci et al. 2006), including evolution in response to HIREC (Ghalambor et al. 2007).”
Ecological and evolutionary responses of Mediterranean plants to global change. (2014, neutral): “The potential importance of genetic assimilation to incorporate phenotypic innovations and accelerate evolution is controversial (e.g. Pigliucci et al., 2006) but deserves particular attention in a global change framework, a research attention that, to our knowledge, has not yet been given.”
Ecological limits to plant phenotypic plasticity. (2007, background): “Besides, phenotypic plasticity may not always evolve because of its adaptive value: it can evolve as a result of genetic correlations with other traits that are under selection (Pigliucci et al., 2006).”
Plant Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Environmental Factors (2014, background): “This has the potential to explain a variety of evolutionary ecological processes [14, 75].”
Underappreciated Consequences of Phenotypic Plasticity for Ecological Speciation (2012, background): “Whether developmental plasticity rivals mutation as a source of quantitative or qualitative change (the evolution of “novelty”) remains contentious [17, 80, 116].”
Epigenetically facilitated mutational assimilation: epigenetics as a hub within the inclusive evolutionary synthesis (2018, background): “variation initially caused by environmental change eventually becomes encoded into the DNA sequence if the initial environmental change persists for a number of generations (Waddington, 1942, 1953; West-Eberhard, 2003; Pigliucci et al., 2006).”