Pleiotropy constrains the evolution of protein but not regulatory sequences in a transcription regulatory network influencing complex social behaviours

It is increasingly apparent that genes and networks that influence complex behaviour are evolutionary conserved, which is paradoxical considering that behaviour is labile over evolutionary timescales. How does adaptive change in behaviour arise if behaviour is controlled by conserved, pleiotropic, a...

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Main Authors: Daria eMolodtsova, Brock A Harpur, Clement F Kent, Kajendra eSeevananthan, Amro eZayed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2014.00431/full