Genetic assimilation of ancestral plasticity during parallel adaptation
D. Wood, J. A. Holmberg, O. G. Osborne, A. J. Helmsetter, L. T. Dunning, A. R. Ellison, R. J. Smith, J. Lighten, A. S. T. Papadopulos
The paper investigates how ancestral plasticity contributes to adaptive evolution in two independently evolved lineages of zinc-tolerant Silene uniflora, finding that genetic assimilation of ancestral plasticity explains a third of constitutive differences between ecotypes.
bioRxiv · Nov 30, 2021 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology