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Heterokairy: a significant form of developmental plasticity? [PDF]
, 2016 There is a current surge of research interest in the potential role of developmental plasticity in adaptation and evolution. Here we make a case that some of this research effort should explore the adaptive significance of heterokairy, a specific type of
DeWitt TJ +8 more
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Coding Odorant Concentration through Activation Timing between the Medial and Lateral Olfactory Bulb
Cell Reports, 2012 In mammals, each olfactory bulb (OB) contains a pair of mirror-symmetric glomerular maps organized to reflect odorant receptor identity. The functional implication of maintaining these symmetric medial-lateral maps within each OB remains unclear.
Zhishang Zhou, Leonardo Belluscio
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Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 Single-cell (sc) omics has become a powerful tool to unravel a tissue’s cell landscape across health and disease. In recent years, sc transcriptomic interrogation has been applied to a variety of tooth tissues of both human and mouse, which has ...
Florian Hermans +6 more
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Rapid and continuous activity-dependent plasticity of olfactory sensory input
Nature Communications, 2016 New olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) wire into olfactory bulb circuits throughout life. Here, the authors show that newly generated OSNs form highly dynamics synapses and can elicit functional responses in OB neurons, while mature OSNs retain a high ...
Claire E. J. Cheetham +2 more
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Phenotypic flexibility and the evolution of organismal design [PDF]
, 2003 Evolutionary biologists often use phenotypic differences between species and between individuals to gain an understanding of organismal design. The focus of much recent attention has been on developmental plasticity – the environmentally induced ...
Drent, Jan,, Piersma, Theunis,
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Developmental Plasticity in Plants [PDF]
Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 2012 As sessile organisms, plants are unable to seek out environmental conditions optimal for their growth and development but instead must complete their life cycles in the environment in which they are growing. However, plants are remarkably plastic, such that a single genotype is able to give rise to a wide range of phenotypes.
M, de Jong, O, Leyser
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Characterization of NGF, trkANGFR, and p75NTR in Retina of Mice Lacking Reelin Glycoprotein
International Journal of Cell Biology, 2014 Both Reelin and Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) exert crucial roles in retinal development. Retinogenesis is severely impaired in E-reeler mice, a model of Reelin deficiency showing specific Green Fluorescent Protein expression in Rod Bipolar Cells (RBCs ...
Bijorn Omar Balzamino +6 more
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Sensitive windows for within- and trans-generational plasticity of anti-predator defences
Peer Community Journal, 2023 Transgenerational plasticity could be an important mechanism for adaptation to variable environments in addition to within-generational plasticity. But its potential for adaptation may be restricted to specific developmental windows that are highly ...
Tariel-Adam, Juliette +2 more
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Can environmental conditions experienced in early life influence future generations? [PDF]
, 2014 The consequences of early developmental conditions for performance in later life are now subjected to convergent interest from many different biological sub-disciplines.
Burton, Tim, Metcalfe, Neil B.
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Endocrine regulation of predator-induced phenotypic plasticity [PDF]
, 2014 Elucidating the developmental and genetic control of phenotypic plasticity remains a central agenda in evolutionary ecology. Here, we investigate the physiological regulation of phenotypic plasticity induced by another organism, specifically predator ...
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