Publication: Eco-Evo-Devo: The Time Has Come
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2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Abouheif, Ehab
Fave, Marie-Julie
Ibarraran-Viniegra, Ana Sofia
Lesoway, Maryna P.
Rafiqi, ABDUL MATTEEN
Rajakumar, Rajendhran
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The major goal of ecological evolutionary developmental biology, also known as -eco-evo-devo,- is to uncover the rules that underlie the interactions between an organism-s environment, genes, and development and to incorporate these rules into evolutionary theory. In this chapter, we discuss some key and emerging concepts within eco-evo-devo. These concepts show that the environment is a source and inducer of genotypic and phenotypic variation at multiple levels of biological organization, while development acts as a regulator that can mask, release, or create new combinations of variation. Natural selection can subsequently fix this variation, giving rise to novel phenotypes. Combining the approaches of eco-evo-devo and ecological genomics will mutually enrich these fields in a way that will not only enhance our understanding of evolution, but also of the genetic mechanisms underlying the responses of organisms to their natural environments.
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Abouheif E., Fave M., Ibarraran-Viniegra A. S. , Lesoway M. P. , Rafiqi A. M. , Rajakumar R., -Eco-Evo-Devo: The Time Has Come-, ECOLOGICAL GENOMICS: ECOLOGY AND THE EVOLUTION OF GENES AND GENOMES, cilt.781, ss.107-125, 2014