Information Theory Can Help Quantify the Potential of New Phenotypes to Originate as Exaptations
Exaptations are adaptive traits that do not originate de novo but from other adaptive traits. They include complex macroscopic traits, such as the middle ear bones of mammals, which originated from reptile jaw bones, but also molecular traits, such as new binding sites of transcriptional regulators....
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2020.564071/full |