Canalisation (genetics) - Wikipedia Canalisation is a measure of the ability of a population to produce the same phenotype regardless of variability of its environment or genotype It is a form of evolutionary robustness
Canalization: A Central but Controversial Concept in Evo-Devo In this chapter, we review the concept of canalization and attempt to provide the basis for understanding contrasting and complementary positions about the mechanisms involved in the production of robust phenotypes as well as the different views on the origin and evolutionary role of canalization
The Developmental-Genetics of Canalization - PMC Canalization, or robustness to genetic or environmental perturbations, is fundamental to complex organisms While there is strong evidence for canalization as an evolved property that varies among genotypes, the developmental and genetic mechanisms
CANALIZATION Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster : surgical formation of holes or canals for drainage without tubes : natural formation of new channels in tissue (as formation of new blood vessels through a blood clot) : establishment of new pathways in the central nervous system by repeated passage of nerve impulses
The evolutionary genetics of canalization - PubMed Mechanistically, canalization can be understood in terms of transmission patterns, such as epistasis, pleiotropy, and genotype by environment interactions, and in terms of genetic redundancy, modularity, and emergent properties of gene networks and biochemical pathways
Waddingtons canalization revisited: Developmental stability . . . Waddington developed the concept of canalization to explain the “very general observation… that the wild type of an organism, that is to say, the form which occurs in Nature under the influence of natural selection, is much less variable in appearance than the majority of the mutant races” (1)
Canalisation (Genetics) - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics Genetic canalization is a process by which the sensitivity of a trait to allelic variation is reduced (Fig 1, top row, middle to right plot; [4, 5, 25]) This can occur through, for example, the evolution of epistatic interactions among genes [4]