When combined with predictive modeling, such approaches drastically accelerate adaptive coating developments.
We propose that the opposing consequences of differentially methylated PCIs on transcription and chromatin accelerate adaptive evolution towards biological complexity.
These authors showed that plasticity does not accelerate adaptive evolution in RNA structures.
Furthermore, studies have reported that under certain conditions, the environment-induced phenotypes are genetically fixed through genetic assimilation, suggesting that developmental plasticity may accelerate adaptive evolution [ 13].
It has, indeed, been asserted that phenotypic plasticity can accelerate adaptive evolution by shortening the time a population needs to discover a new genotypic network [ 111] even in the case of recurrent rapid changes in gene regulation [ 112].
We here seek to characterize the evolutionary history of these candidate regions examining evidence for selective sweeps in modern human populations as well as for accelerated adaptive evolution across apes.
In some lineages, such as nematodes, homologs of MRPP3/PRORP and MRPP1 appear considerably more divergent [30], possibly the result of an accelerated adaptive evolution due to the bizarre mitochondrial tRNA structures found in these organisms [105].
