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Nina Kraus

@ninakraus.bsky.social

Tiptoeing around the squishy penumbra of scientific practice. PhD Student at Department of Evolutionary Biology, Theoretical Biology Unit, University of Vienna

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

In her Commentary, Nina Kraus @ninakraus.bsky.social introduces the 'environmentally dependent developmental induction’ model, a potential means through which phenotypic evolution is influenced by environmental effects on development journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Screenshot of the PDF of the first page of the Commentary, Environmentally dependent developmental induction as a potential driver of heart evolution, by Nina Kraus. The publishing information states: © 2026. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2026) 229, jeb250920. doi:10.1242/jeb.250920. The first sentence of the Abstract states: 'Developmental biology and evolutionary theory have traditionally emphasized gene mutations as the primary drivers of new traits, with natural selection shaping the resulting variation'.

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KLI @kli.ac.at · 30/01/2026

💐 Congratulations to our 2025 KLI fellow, Nina Kraus @ninakraus.bsky.social, on her new publication in the Journal of Experimental Biology on "Environmentally dependent developmental induction as a potential driver of heart evolution"! 👏👏👏 📃 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Fig. 4. of Kraus 2026. Normal mammalian cardiogenesis and ambiogenic events hypothesized to be required for proper outflow tract development during placentation, along with associated developmental and phylogenetic phenotypes.

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