Phenotypic diversity in natural populations of an endangered plant Tetracentron sinense
Botanical Sciences, 2017 Background: Tetracentron sinense, distributed mainly in central and southwest China, is a threatened deciduous broad-leaved canopy tree. Presently, little is known about the phenotypic diversity in natural populations of T.
Hongyan Han +3 more
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Sensory trait variation in an echolocating bat suggests roles for both selection and plasticity [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Across heterogeneous environments selection and gene flow interact to influence the rate and extent of adaptive trait evolution. This complex relationship is further influenced by the rarely considered role of phenotypic plasticity in the ...
Lizelle J Odendaal +5 more
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Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2016 The modern evolutionary synthesis suggests that both environmental variation and genetic diversity are critical determinants of pathogen success. However, the relative contribution of these two sources of variation is not routinely measured.
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Interpreting phenotypic variation in plants
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1994 Plant ecologists and evolutionary biologists frequently examine patterns of phenotypic variation across variable environments or genetic identities. Too often, we ignore the fact that most phenotypic traits change throughout growth and development of individual plants, and that rates of growth and development are highly variable.
J S, Coleman +2 more
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Epigenetic variation creates potential for evolution of plant phenotypic plasticity [PDF]
, 2013 Heritable variation in plant phenotypes, and thus potential for evolutionary change, can in principle not only be caused by variation in DNA sequence, but also by underlying epigenetic variation.
Oliver Bossdorf +11 more
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Genetic variation in the nuclear and organellar genomes modulates stochastic variation in the metabolome, growth, and defense. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2015 Recent studies are starting to show that genetic control over stochastic variation is a key evolutionary solution of single celled organisms in the face of unpredictable environments.
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Author Correction: Comparing phenotypic variation between inbred and outbred mice [PDF]
, 2018 Correction to "Comparing phenotypic variation between inbred and outbred ...
Philip, Vivek M. +3 more
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How might epigenetics contribute to ecological speciation? [PDF]
, 2014 Speciation research has seen a renewed interest in ecological speciation, which emphasises divergent ecological selection leading to the evolution of reproductive isolation.
Ritchie, Michael G., Smith, Gilbert
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Coevolutionary dynamics of phenotypic diversity and contingent cooperation. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2017 Phenotypic diversity is considered beneficial to the evolution of contingent cooperation, in which cooperators channel their help preferentially towards others of similar phenotypes.
Te Wu, Long Wang, Feng Fu
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Glacial history affected phenotypic differentiation in the Alpine plant Campanula thyrsoides [PDF]
, 2013 Numerous widespread Alpine plant species show molecular differentiation among populations from distinct regions. This has been explained as the result of genetic drift during glacial survival in isolated refugia along the border of the European Alps ...
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