Can random mutation explain the 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 the phenotypic variability? PeerJ Preprints 6:e26862v3 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26862v3
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 in specific genes of the somatic cells involved in a behavior also act in the partial 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 conjunct evolution with the environment.
Author Comment
In this version: Important improvements in the synthesis of ideas. The arguments are limited to the evidence observed and the content of figure 1 was modified.