Biologists zero in on role of plasticity in evolution
Monday, March 10, 2014 - 05:40
in Biology & Nature
For more than a century, scientists have suggested that the best way to settle the debate about how phenotypic plasticity—the way an organism changes in response to environment—may be connected to evolution would be to identify a single mechanism that controls both. Harvard researchers say they have discovered just such a mechanism in insulin signaling in fruit flies.