Contribution of the inheritance of environmentally induced epigenetic modifications to the evolution of the pigmentation phenotype in birds
Contribución de la herencia de modificaciones epigenéticas inducidas ambientalmente a la evolución del fenotipo de pigmentación en aves
Principal investigator
Juan José Negro
Financial institution
MIN CIENCIA E INNOVACION
Fecha de inicio
Fecha de fin
Code
PID2020-114632GB-I00
Department
Ecology and Evolution
Researchers
Galván, Ismael (MNCN-CSIC)
Brief description
The modern evolutionary synthesis, assuming that evolution by natural selection depends on the existence of genetic variation whose ultimate origin is random mutations, has been reformulated in the last years with the incorporation of epigenetics to the study of organic evolution. Given that some animals have evolved lability that affects their pigmentation phenotype, in this project it will be evaluated if epigenetic modifications are inherited by future generations to determine the evolutionary consequences of the changes. This aim will be achieved by conducting experiments in zebra finches.