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Overcoming maladaptive plasticity through plastic compensation
Current Zoology, 2013 Most species evolve within fluctuating environments, and have developed adaptations to meet the challenges posed by environmental heterogeneity. One such adaptation is phenotypic plasticity, or the ability of a single genotype to produce multiple ...
Matthew R.J. MORRIS, Sean M. ROGERS
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Cancer Cell InternationalCellular plasticity enables cancer cells to adapt non-genetically, thereby preventing therapeutic success. The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a type of plasticity linked to resistance and metastasis.
Lauriane Muller +11 more
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Phenotypic Plasticity of the Drosophila Transcriptome
PLoS Genetics, 2012 Phenotypic plasticity is the ability of a single genotype to produce different phenotypes in response to changing environments. We assessed variation in genome-wide gene expression and four fitness-related phenotypes of an outbred Drosophila melanogaster population under 20 different physiological, social, nutritional, chemical, and physical ...
Zhou, Shanshan +4 more
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Changes in selection regime cause loss of phenotypic plasticity in planktonic freshwater copepods.
PLoS ONE, 2014 Rapid phenotypic adaptation is critical for populations facing environmental changes and can be facilitated by phenotypic plasticity in the selected traits.
Sergej Vital'evič Sereda +2 more
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Epigenetic Control of Phenotypic Plasticity in the Filamentous Fungus Neurospora crassa
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2016 Phenotypic plasticity is the ability of a genotype to produce different phenotypes under different environmental or developmental conditions. Phenotypic plasticity is a ubiquitous feature of living organisms, and is typically based on variable patterns ...
Ilkka Kronholm +2 more
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Adaptive phenotypic plasticity: consensus and controversy
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1995 Phenotypic plasticity is an environmentally based change in the phenotype. Understanding the evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity has been hampered by dissenting opinions on the merits of different methods of description, on the underlying genetic mechanisms, and on the way that plasticity is affected by natural selection in a heterogeneous ...
Via, S. +5 more
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The evolution of phenotypic plasticity: Genealogy of a debate in genetics [PDF]
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2015 The paper describes the context and the origin of a particular debate that concerns the evolution of phenotypic plasticity. In 1965, British biologist A. D. Bradshaw proposed a widely cited model intended to explain the evolution of norms of reaction, based on his studies of plant populations.
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Frontiers in Epigenetics and EpigenomicsGlioblastoma (GBM), a highly aggressive and malignant form of primary adult brain cancer, poses significant therapeutic challenges. Despite our improved understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying tumorigenesis and the evolution of ...
Farzaneh Amirmahani +2 more
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Advanced ScienceA critical challenge in crop breeding is the trade‐off between improving the mean of an important trait and maintaining its phenotypic plasticity. Grain chalkiness is a key cereal grain‐quality trait highly susceptible to environments.
Juncheng Zhang +10 more
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