✦ LIBER ✦
Genome-wide approaches to the study of adaptive gene expression evolution : Systematic studies of evolutionary adaptations involving gene expression will allow many fundamental questions in evolutionary biology to be addressed
✍ Scribed by Hunter B. Fraser
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 307 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0265-9247
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✦ Synopsis
The role of gene expression in evolutionary adaptation has been a subject of debate for over 40 years. cis-regulation of transcription has been proposed to be the primary source of morphological novelty in evolution, though this is based on only a handful of examples. Recently the first genome-wide studies of gene expression adaptation have been published, giving us an initial global view of this process. Systematic studies such as these will allow a number of key questions currently facing the field of gene expression evolution to be addressed.