The Lamarckian chicken and the Darwinian egg

ABSTRACT: “Which came first, the Chicken or the Egg?” We suggest this question is not a paradox. The Modern Synthesis envisions speciation through genetic changes in germ cells via random mutations, an “Egg first” scenario, but perhaps epigenetic inheritance mechanisms can transmit adaptive changes...

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Autores principales: Pilpel, Yitzhak, Rechavi, Oded
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4486432/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26126811
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13062-015-0062-9
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description ABSTRACT: “Which came first, the Chicken or the Egg?” We suggest this question is not a paradox. The Modern Synthesis envisions speciation through genetic changes in germ cells via random mutations, an “Egg first” scenario, but perhaps epigenetic inheritance mechanisms can transmit adaptive changes initiated in the soma (“Chicken first”). REVIEWERS: The article was reviewed by Dr. Eugene Koonin, Dr. Itai Yanai, Dr. Laura Landweber.
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spelling pubmed-44864322015-07-02 The Lamarckian chicken and the Darwinian egg Pilpel, Yitzhak Rechavi, Oded Biol Direct Comment ABSTRACT: “Which came first, the Chicken or the Egg?” We suggest this question is not a paradox. The Modern Synthesis envisions speciation through genetic changes in germ cells via random mutations, an “Egg first” scenario, but perhaps epigenetic inheritance mechanisms can transmit adaptive changes initiated in the soma (“Chicken first”). REVIEWERS: The article was reviewed by Dr. Eugene Koonin, Dr. Itai Yanai, Dr. Laura Landweber. BioMed Central 2015-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4486432/ /pubmed/26126811 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13062-015-0062-9 Text en © Pilpel and Rechavi. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4486432/
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