All

Pleiotropy comes from the Greek πλείων pleion, meaning "more", and τρέπειν trepein, meaning "to turn, to convert". It designates the occurrence of a single gene affecting multiple traits, and is a hugely important concept in evolutionary biology.I was a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara last time I updated this. Now I'm a data analyst in New York.Many aspects of evolution interest me, but my research focus used to be on microbial evolution, adaptive radiation, speciation, fitness landscapes, epistasis, and the influence of genetic architecture on adaptation and speciation.Email: parictis[at]gmail.List of posts on peer-reviewed journal papers: ResearchBlogging.org