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Juxtaglomerular Cell Phenotypic Plasticity [PDF]
High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention, 2017 Renin is the first and rate-limiting step of the renin-angiotensin system. The exclusive source of renin in the circulation are the juxtaglomerular cells of the kidney, which line the afferent arterioles at the entrance of the glomeruli. Normally, renin production by these cells suffices to maintain homeostasis.
Martini, Alexandre, Danser, Jan
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Genetic Assimilation and Canalisation in the Baldwin Effect [PDF]
, 2005 The Baldwin Effect indicates that individually learned behaviours acquired during an organism’s lifetime can influence the evolutionary path taken by a population, without any direct Lamarckian transfer of traits from phenotype to genotype.
C.H. Waddington +11 more
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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 +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 +3 more
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A case of modular phenotypic plasticity in the depth gradient for the gorgonian coral Antillogorgia bipinnata (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Phenotypic plasticity, as a phenotypic response induced by the environment, has been proposed as a key factor in the evolutionary history of corals. A significant number of octocoral species show high phenotypic variation, exhibiting a strong
Calixto-Botía, Iván, Sánchez, Juan A.
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The evolution of age-dependent plasticity [PDF]
, 2014 When organisms encounter environments that are heterogeneous in time, phenotypic plasticity is often favored by selection. The degree of such plasticity can vary during an organism's lifetime, but the factors promoting differential plastic responses at ...
Dieckmann, U. +2 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 +3 more
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Epithelial/mesenchymal plasticity: how have quantitative mathematical models helped improve our understanding? [PDF]
, 2017 Phenotypic plasticity, the ability of cells to reversibly alter their phenotypes in response to signals, presents a significant clinical challenge to treating solid tumors.
Hanash, Samir M. +4 more
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