Waddington's widget: Hsp90 and the inheritance of acquired characters.

Abstract:

:Conrad Waddington published an influential model for evolution in his 1942 paper, Canalization of Development and Inheritance of Acquired Characters. In this classic, albeit controversial, paper, he proposed that an unknown mechanism exists that conceals phenotypic variation until the organism is stressed. Recent studies have proposed that the highly conserved chaperone Hsp90 could function as a "capacitor," or an "adaptively inducible canalizer," that masks silent phenotypic variation of either genetic or epigenetic origin. This review will discuss evidence for, and arguments against, the role of Hsp90 as a capacitor for morphological evolution, and as a key component of what we call "Waddington's widget."

journal_name

Semin Cell Dev Biol

authors

Ruden DM,Garfinkel MD,Sollars VE,Lu X

doi

10.1016/j.semcdb.2003.09.024

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-10-01 00:00:00

pages

301-10

issue

5

eissn

1084-9521

issn

1096-3634

pii

S1084-9521(03)00086-7

journal_volume

14

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