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GENETIC ASSIMILATION OF AN ACQUIRED CHARACTER
Paper summary
Selects fruit flies for a heat-induced wing phenotype and observes increased expression without the inducing treatment after selection. The experiments illustrate genetic assimilation of an initially environmentally elicited character.
Relevance to the project
A reference for interactions between developmental variation, environmental conditions, and inherited construction. Could compare plastic phenotype formation with later evolutionary stabilization.
Genetic assimilation is not direct inheritance of every acquired change.
Source record
- Reference ID
- doi-10-1111-j-1558-5646-1953-tb00070-x
- Archived version
- Open repository PDF advertised by article metadata
- Summary provenance
- reference-library/papers/doi-10-1111-j-1558-5646-1953-tb00070-x/metadata.json · summary
- Review status
- initial orientation summary; not a critical full-paper review
- Reading scope
- Selected abstract/opening and available closing discussion/conclusion passages in the preserved text extract; broader project notes provide context. No reproduction of experiments, exhaustive methods review, or equation/figure audit.