PREDICTION OF EVOLUTION - SOMATIC PLASTICITY AS A BASIC, PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION FOR THE VIABILITY OF GENETIC MUTATIONS

Authors
Citation
I. Walker, PREDICTION OF EVOLUTION - SOMATIC PLASTICITY AS A BASIC, PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION FOR THE VIABILITY OF GENETIC MUTATIONS, Acta biotheoretica, 44(2), 1996, pp. 165-168
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Biology
Journal title
ISSN journal
00015342
Volume
44
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
165 - 168
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-5342(1996)44:2<165:POE-SP>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
The argument is put forward that genetic mutations are viable then onl y, when the changed pattern of growth and/or metabolism is accommodate d by the taxon-specific biochemistry of the organisms, i.e. by adaptiv e, somatic/physiological plasticity. The range of somatic plasticity u nder changing environmental conditions, therefore, has a certain predi ctive value for the kind of mutations that are likely to be viable.