Can random mutation explain phenotypic variability?
Department of Marine Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México
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- Subject Areas
- Animal Behavior, Ecology, Evolutionary Studies, Genetics
- Keywords
- evolution, gametogenesis, transcription, mutation, epigenome
- Copyright
- © 2018 Zapata Trejo
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2018. Can random mutation explain phenotypic variability? PeerJ Preprints 6:e26862v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26862v1
Abstract
The epigenome regulates the gene expression of all differentiated cells and indicates which specific genes must be transcribed. It is argued that the expression factors that act on specific genes of the somatic cell involved in a behavior also act on the transcription of the same genes in the most undifferentiated cells of the germ line. It is proposed how a probabilistic view of the random mutation can explain the evolution of the phenotypes and integrate all the evidence pointing to a joint evolution with the environment.
Author Comment
This article is intended for peer review and to be published in a scientific journal. This is the first draft of the manuscript.