Not exact matches
«Because climate
change affects some environmental factors like precipitation and temperature but not
others like day length,
phenotypic plasticity could allow some species to persist in a habitat despite
changing conditions and provide more time for them to evolve and migrate,» says co-author Zachariah Gezon, a Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth.
Among 11 strains that had the most overt
phenotypic changes, four were aneuploid and no
other aneuploids were detected in the larger progeny set (Figure 9A).
The focus of the conference was connecting how epigenetics (cellular and physiological
phenotypic trait variations that are caused by external or environmental factors that switch genes on and off and affect how cells read genes instead of being caused by
changes in the DNA sequence — in
other words nutrition and lifestyle choices) impact whether or not an individual actually develops a specific health issue even though they have a SNP mutation.