Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paul Sabatier (UPS), École Nationale de Formation Agronomique (ENFA), Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique, UMR5174, Touluse, France.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2013 Jun;28(6):351-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2013.02.010. Epub 2013 Mar 26.
Following the discovery that inheritance entails the interaction between genetic and nongenetic processes, biology is undergoing a profound mutation. This paradigm shift implies that the model of heredity that is emerging incorporates genetic and nongenetic processes. A way to integrate all forms of inheritance harmoniously is to consider what unifies genetic and nongenetic heredity. Here, I unify all sources of phenotypic variation within the concept of information and its avatars, discuss a major overlooked methodological problem leading to confounding sources of variation (namely the case of the missing heritability), propose new research avenues, and illustrate how putting concepts of information at the heart of evolutionary approaches will affect the emerging Inclusive Evolutionary Synthesis.
随着人们发现遗传涉及遗传和非遗传过程的相互作用，生物学正在经历一场深刻的变革。这一范式转变意味着正在出现的遗传模型包含了遗传和非遗传过程。一种和谐地整合所有形式遗传的方法是考虑将遗传和非遗传统一起来。在这里，我将表型变异的所有来源统一在信息及其化身的概念中，讨论一个导致混淆变异源的主要被忽视的方法学问题（即遗传缺失的情况），提出新的研究途径，并说明将信息概念置于进化方法的核心将如何影响正在出现的包容性进化综合。
