Plasticity and Adaptation in a Novel Environment/ Curr. Biol., Sep. 6, 2018 (Vol. 28, Issue 18)

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Plasticity has been hypothesized to precede adaptation to new environments.  Corl et al. show that melanic lizards from a lava flow have both ancestral plasticity in coloration and divergence in two genes that increase pigmentation. Plasticity aided in the initial colonization of the new habitat, where natural selection then refined the phenotype.

Check out the paper at http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30899-6.

A. Corl, K. Bi, C. Luke, A.S. Challa, A.J. Stern, B. Sinervo, and R. Nielsen (2018). The Genetic Basis of Adaptation following Plastic Changes in Coloration in a Novel Environment. Curr. Biol. 28.

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