Digest: Stable phenotypes, fluid genotypes: how stochasticity impacts network evolution and speciation

A longstanding goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the relationship between genotype and phenotype. Schiffman and Ralph use mathematical modeling to theoretically examine how the genetic network underlying a conserved phenotype can change over time. They found that when phenotypically identical populations with different gene network configurations interbreed, hybrid incompatibilities can arise. These results suggest that neutral processes could play a major role in driving speciation.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Evolution; international journal of organic evolution

• Publication date

  2022-02-12

• Fields of study

  Biology, Mathematics, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/evo.14452PMID 35149989PMCID 9303642
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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