Potential contribution of intrinsic developmental stability toward body plan conservation [PDF]
BMC Biology, 2022 Background Despite the morphological diversity of animals, their basic anatomical patterns—the body plans in each animal phylum—have remained highly conserved over hundreds of millions of evolutionary years. This is attributed to conservation of the body
Yui Uchida +4 more
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Associations between leaf developmental stability, variability, canalization, and phenotypic plasticity in Abutilon theophrasti [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Developmental stability, canalization, and phenotypic plasticity are the most common sources of phenotypic variation, yet comparative studies investigating the relationships between these sources, specifically in plants, are lacking.
Shu Wang, Dao‐Wei Zhou
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Systemic signalling and local effectors in developmental stability, body symmetry, and size [PDF]
Cell Stress, 2018 Symmetric growth and the origins of fluctuating asymmetry are unresolved phenomena of biology. Small, and sometimes noticeable, deviations from perfect bilateral symmetry reflect the vulnerability of development to perturbations.
Sergio Juarez-Carreño +2 more
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Cyclin G and the Polycomb Repressive complexes PRC1 and PR-DUB cooperate for developmental stability. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2018 In Drosophila, ubiquitous expression of a short Cyclin G isoform generates extreme developmental noise estimated by fluctuating asymmetry (FA), providing a model to tackle developmental stability.
Delphine Dardalhon-Cuménal +10 more
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Growth Regulation in the Larvae of the Lepidopteran Pieris brassicae: A Field Study
Insects, 2023 Size and shape are important determinants of fitness in most living beings. Accordingly, the capacity of the organism to regulate size and shape during growth, containing the effects of developmental disturbances of different origin, is considered a key ...
Sebastian Baraldi +2 more
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Fluctuating asymmetry in Pelophylax ridibundus (Amphibia: Ranidae) as a response to anthropogenic pollution in south Bulgaria [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2015 The aim of this study was to investigate the integral indicator for developmental stability, the fluctuating asymmetry (FA), in the marsh frog Pelophylax ridibundus populations that inhabit biotopes of different types (running rivers and still ...
Zhelev Zhivko M. +4 more
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Adaptive significance of amylase polymorphism in drosophila, XV: Examination of genotype-by-environment interactions on the viability, developmental time and stability of drosophila subobscura homozygous for Amy during exposure to nutritional changes [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2011 Due to the direct interaction between enzyme and substrate, the amylase system can provide valuable information on the relationship between homozygosity and developmental homeostasis under a changing environment in several Drosophila species, The ...
Savić Tatjana +3 more
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Developmental stability and leadership effectiveness [PDF]
The Leadership Quarterly, 2012 Developmental stability is the degree to which we can withstand environmental or genetic stressors during development. Fluctuating asymmetry (FA), concerns the extent to which the right and left side of the body is asymmetrical and is one way to measure developmental stability.
Senior, C +5 more
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Sources of epigenetic variation and their applications in natural populations
Evolutionary Applications, 2020 Epigenetic processes manage gene expression and products in a real‐time manner, allowing a single genome to display different phenotypes. In this paper, we discussed the relevance of assessing the different sources of epigenetic variation in natural ...
Bernard Angers +3 more
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Evolutionary Applications, 2021 Pathways through which phenotypic variation among individuals arise can be complex. One assumption often made in relation to intraspecific diversity is that the stability or predictability of the environment will interact with expression of the ...
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