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Genetic accommodation

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Evolutionary modification of an environmentally responsive phenotypic trait or its regulation. It can change a response threshold, magnitude or specificity and need not reduce phenotypic plasticity.
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Genetic accommodation
A sequence in which an environmental change induces a phenotype through phenotypic plasticity, followed by inherited refinement through natural selection. Evidence requires separating initial induction from subsequent inherited change.

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