Evo-devo beyond development : Generalizing evo-devo to all levels of the phenotypic evolution
Salazar Ciudad, Isaac (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia)
Cano-Fernández, Hugo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Genètica i de Microbiologia)

Date:	2023
Abstract:	A foundational idea of evo-devo is that morphological variation is not isotropic, that is, it does not occur in all directions. Instead, some directions of morphological variation are more likely than others from DNA-level variation and these largely depend on development. We argue that this evo-devo perspective should apply not only to morphology but to evolution at all phenotypic levels. At other phenotypic levels there is no development, but there are processes that can be seen, in analogy to development, as constructing the phenotype (e. g. , protein folding, learning for behavior, etc. ). We argue that to explain the direction of evolution two types of arguments need to be combined: generative arguments about which phenotypic variation arises in each generation and selective arguments about which of it passes to the next generation. We explain how a full consideration of the two types of arguments improves the explanatory power of evolutionary theory. Also see the video abstract here: https://youtu. be/Egbvma_uaKc.
Note:	Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Development ; Evolution ; Evolutionary theory ; Protein evolution
Published in:	BioEssays, Vol. 45, Issue 3 (March 2023) , art. 2200205, ISSN 1521-1878

DOI: 10.1002/bies.202200205

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