Evolution: the plastic transcriptome.
Studies across a wide range of species point to a surprising degree of plasticity in the transcriptional states that organisms can adopt, suggesting that organisms often respond to environmental challenges through wholesale reprogramming of their gene expression.
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Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 27695-7614, USA. ggibson@unity.ncsu.edu
D000818:Animals; D017360:Arabidopsis; D001516:Bees; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004777:Environment; D005589:Foxes; D015870:Gene Expression; D014337:Trout