title: Nature-via-nurture and unravelling causality in evolutionary genetics.
abstract: Quantitative geneticists traditionally attribute phenotypic variation to genetic or environmental sources. New findings with near-clonal mice raised in a single enriched environment demonstrated significant developmental and behavioural divergence. This suggests intriguing possibilities for how (epi)genomes and environments might interact to drive phenotypic individuality, thus shaping evolutionary pathways.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Kathleen E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Lynch
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Electronic address: darrell.kemp@mq.edu.au.
authors.forename: Darrell J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Kemp
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005260:Female; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000196:embryology*; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D055495:Neurogenesis; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000235:genetics*
keywords: covariance; epigenetics; genetic variance