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The genetics of phenotypic plasticity in nematode feeding structures [PDF]

Open Biology, 2017
Phenotypic plasticity has been proposed as an ecological and evolutionary concept. Ecologically, it can help study how genes and the environment interact to produce robust phenotypes.
Ralf J. Sommer, Mohannad Dardiry, Masa Lenuzzi, Suryesh Namdeo, Tess Renahan, Bogdan Sieriebriennikov, Michael S. Werner   +6 more
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Saturated Fatty Acid-Enriched Diet-Impaired Mitochondrial Bioenergetics in Liver From Undernourished Rats During Critical Periods of Development

Cells, 2019
The nutritional transition that the western population has undergone is increasingly associated with chronic metabolic diseases. In this work, we evaluated a diet rich in saturated fatty acids (hyperlipidic, HL) after weaning of the offspring rats ...
Aiany C. Simões-Alves, Joao H. Costa-Silva, Idelfonso B. Barros-Junior, Reginaldo C. da Silva Filho, Diogo A. A. Vasconcelos, Hubert Vidal, Béatrice Morio, Mariana P. Fernandes   +7 more
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Testing for Phenotypic Plasticity

Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 2021
Phenotypic plasticity, or an organism’s capacity to change its phenotype in response to environmental variation, is a pervasive—perhaps even ubiquitous—feature of the biological world.
Aja Watkins
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Phenotypic plasticity opposes species invasions by altering fitness surface. [PDF]

PLoS Biology, 2006
Understanding species invasion is a central problem in ecology because invasions of exotic species severely impact ecosystems, and because invasions underlie fundamental ecological processes.
Scott D Peacor, Stefano Allesina, Rick L Riolo, Mercedes Pascual   +3 more
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Histone methylation regulates reproductive diapause in Drosophila melanogaster.

PLoS Genetics, 2023
Fluctuating environments threaten fertility and viability. To better match the immediate, local environment, many organisms adopt alternative phenotypic states, a phenomenon called "phenotypic plasticity." Natural populations that predictably encounter ...
Abigail DiVito Evans, Regina A Fairbanks, Paul Schmidt, Mia T Levine   +3 more
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Phenotypic plasticity closely linked to climate at origin and resulting in increased mortality under warming and frost stress in a common grass

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Phenotypic plasticity is important for species responses to global change and species coexistence. Phenotypic plasticity differs among species and traits and changes across environments. Here, we investigated phenotypic plasticity of the widespread grass
Juergen Kreyling, Sébastien J. Puechmaille, Andrey V. Malyshev, Fernando Valladares   +3 more
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Phenotypic plasticity and experimental evolution [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2006
SUMMARYNatural or artificial selection that favors higher values of a particular trait within a given population should engender an evolutionary response that increases the mean value of the trait. For this prediction to hold, the phenotypic variance of the trait must be caused in part by additive effects of alleles segregating in the population, and ...
Theodore, Garland, Scott A, Kelly
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Developmental phenotypic plasticity in a marsupial [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2012
SUMMARY Climate change is likely to substantially affect the distribution ranges of species. However, little is known about how different mammalian taxa respond morphologically and physiologically to a rapid change of climate. Our objective was to provide the first quantitative data on the effect of continuous cold exposure during ...
Riek, Alexander, Geiser, Fritz
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Cellular plasticity facilitates phenotypic change in a dominant coral’s Symbiodiniaceae assemblage

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Coral-associated dinoflagellates (Symbiodiniaceae) are photosynthetic endosymbionts that influence coral acclimation, as indicated by photo-endosymbiotic phenotypic variance across different environmental conditions.
Colin J. Anthony, Colin Lock, Brett M. Taylor, Bastian Bentlage   +3 more
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Estimation of additive genetic variance when there are gene–environment correlations: Pitfalls, solutions and unexplored questions

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Estimating the genetic variation underpinning a trait is crucial to understanding and predicting its evolution. A key statistical tool to estimate this variation is the animal model.
Gabriel Munar‐Delgado, Yimen G. Araya‐Ajoy, Pim Edelaar   +2 more
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