Non-adaptive plasticity potentiates rapid adaptive evolution of gene expression in nature

Cameron K. Ghalambor (), Kim L. Hoke, Emily W. Ruell, Eva K. Fischer, David N. Reznick and Kimberly A. Hughes ()
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Cameron K. Ghalambor: Colorado State University
Kim L. Hoke: Colorado State University
Emily W. Ruell: Colorado State University
Eva K. Fischer: Colorado State University
David N. Reznick: University of California
Kimberly A. Hughes: Florida State University

Nature, 2015, vol. 525, issue 7569, 372-375

Abstract: Experimentally transplanting guppies to evolve in a novel, predator-free environment reveals that the direction of plasticity in gene expression is usually opposite to the direction of adaptive evolution; that is, those genes whose expression changes are disadvantageous are more strongly selected upon than those whose changes are advantageous.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1038/nature15256

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