Genetic Regulation of Phenotypic Plasticity and Canalisation in Yeast Growth.

ABSTRACT: The ability of a genotype to show diverse phenotypes in different environments is called phenotypic plasticity. Phenotypic plasticity helps populations to evade extinctions in novel environments, facilitates adaptation and fuels evolution. However, most studies focus on understanding the genetic basis of phenotypic regulation in specific environments. As a result, while it's evolutionary relevance is well established, genetic mechanisms regulating phenotypic plasticity and their overlap with the environment specific regulators is not well understood. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is highly sensitive to the environment, which acts as not just external stimulus but also as signalling cue for this unicellular, sessile organism. We used a previously published dataset of a biparental yeast populatio

SUBMITTER: Yadav A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5017675 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature