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The sources of adaptive variation

Deborah Charlesworth, Nicholas H. Barton, Brian Charlesworth
Published 31 May 2017.DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2864
Deborah Charlesworth
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Charlotte Auerbach Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK
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Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg 3400, Austria
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Brian Charlesworth
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Charlotte Auerbach Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2864
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28566483
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0962-8452
Online ISSN 
1471-2954
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  • Received January 3, 2017
  • Accepted May 4, 2017
  • Published online May 31, 2017.
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Volume 284, issue 1855
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: 284 (1855)
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Keywords

modern synthesis
extended evolutionary synthesis
mutation
natural selection
epigenetic inheritance
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Unconventional inheritance systems and adaptive evolution
    • 3. Experimental evidence for epigenetic inheritance
    • 4. Sequence versus epigenetic changes in phenotypic evolution
    • 5. Directed mutation
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