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  • Evolutionary biology
  • Developmental biology
  • Dynamical systems theory

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  • Understanding phenotypic consequences of genetic and environmental changes is crucial for biology.
  • Developmental processes shape phenotypic variation, influencing adaptive evolution.
  • Similar phenotypes arise from diverse perturbations, suggesting an underlying logic in variation generation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To represent development as a dynamical system to uncover the logic of phenotypic variation.
  • To develop a framework for predicting phenotypic effects of perturbations and their concordance.
  • To explore applications in predicting evolutionary response and accelerating evolution.

Main Methods:

  • Representing development as a dynamical system.
  • Analyzing the dynamical dependence of phenotype on itself and perturbation effects.
  • Applying the theoretical framework to classical developmental models.

Main Results:

  • A general framework predicts phenotypic effects of perturbations.
  • Concordance of perturbation effects is explained by generic developmental features.
  • The framework predicts evolutionary response to selection using plasticity data.

Conclusions:

  • Developmental logic can be revealed through a dynamical systems approach.
  • This framework enables quantitative interchangeability of perturbations for controlling variation.
  • The approach can accelerate evolutionary adaptation in desired directions.