The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions

KN Laland, T Uller, MW Feldman… - … of the royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Scientific activities take place within the structured sets of ideas and assumptions that define
a field and its practices. The conceptual framework of evolutionary biology emerged with the …

Evaluating 'plasticity-first'evolution in nature: key criteria and empirical approaches

NA Levis, DW Pfennig - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2016 - cell.com
Many biologists are asking whether environmentally initiated phenotypic change
(ie,'phenotypic plasticity') precedes, and even facilitates, evolutionary adaptation. However …

Non-adaptive plasticity potentiates rapid adaptive evolution of gene expression in nature

CK Ghalambor, KL Hoke, EW Ruell, EK Fischer… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Phenotypic plasticity is the capacity for an individual genotype to produce different
phenotypes in response to environmental variation. Most traits are plastic, but the degree to …

How does epigenetics influence the course of evolution?

A Ashe, V Colot, BP Oldroyd - … transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Epigenetics is the study of changes in gene activity that can be transmitted through cell
divisions but cannot be explained by changes in the DNA sequence. Epigenetic …

Eco-Evo-Devo: developmental symbiosis and developmental plasticity as evolutionary agents

SF Gilbert, TCG Bosch, C Ledón-Rettig - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
The integration of research from developmental biology and ecology into evolutionary theory
has given rise to a relatively new field, ecological evolutionary developmental biology (Eco …

Phenotypic plasticity's impacts on diversification and speciation

DW Pfennig, MA Wund, EC Snell-Rood… - Trends in ecology & …, 2010 - cell.com
Phenotypic plasticity (the ability of a single genotype to produce multiple phenotypes in
response to variation in the environment) is commonplace. Yet its evolutionary significance …

Developmental bias and evolution: a regulatory network perspective

T Uller, AP Moczek, RA Watson, PM Brakefield… - Genetics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
A recurrent theme in evolutionary biology is to contrast natural selection and developmental
constraint–two forces pitted against each other as competing explanations for organismal …

The role of developmental plasticity in evolutionary innovation

AP Moczek, S Sultan, S Foster… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Explaining the origins of novel traits is central to evolutionary biology. Longstanding theory
suggests that developmental plasticity, the ability of an individual to modify its development …

Linking genes to communities and ecosystems: Daphnia as an ecogenomic model

BE Miner, L De Meester… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How do genetic variation and evolutionary change in critical species affect the composition
and functioning of populations, communities and ecosystems? Illuminating the links in the …

Evolution and molecular mechanisms of adaptive developmental plasticity

P Beldade, ARA Mateus, RA Keller - Molecular ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aside from its selective role in filtering inter‐individual variation during evolution by natural
selection, the environment also plays an instructive role in producing variation during …