Matroclinous Inheritance of Behavioral Traits: Possible Mechanisms

Mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance.

The mechanisms by which stable gene expression patterns are inherited during cell division are not well understood. Chromatin is subject to a number of covalent modifications and it is generally believed that the transfer of these modifications between cell generations plays a critical role in inheritance, though how this occurs is a matter of debate. In one proposed model, replication of chrom...

Parallel evolution and inheritance of quantitative traits.

Parallel phenotypic evolution, the independent evolution of the same trait in closely related lineages, is interesting because it tells us about the contribution of natural selection to phenotypic evolution. Haldane and others have proposed that parallel evolution also results from a second process, the similarly biased production of genetic variation in close relatives, an idea that has receiv...

Genetic and Cultural Inheritance of Continuous Traits

nongenetic inheritance for behavioral ecologists

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Forcing Behavioral Subtyping through Speciication Inheritance Forcing Behavioral Subtyping through Speciication Inheritance

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