Transgenerational effects benefit offspring across diverse environments: A meta‐analysis in plants and animals

J Yin, M Zhou, Z Lin, QQ Li, YY Zhang - Ecology Letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The adaptive value of transgenerational effects (the ancestor environmental effects on
offspring) in changing environments has received much attention in recent years, but the …

Deep inside the epigenetic memories of stressed plants

P Gallusci, DR Agius, PN Moschou, J Dobránszki… - Trends in Plant …, 2023 - cell.com
Recent evidence sheds light on the peculiar type of plant intelligence. Plants have
developed complex molecular networks that allow them to remember, choose, and make …

[BOOK][B] Phenotypic plasticity & evolution: causes, consequences, controversies

DW Pfennig - 2021 - library.oapen.org
Phenotypic plasticity–the ability of an individual organism to alter its features in direct
response to a change in its environment–is ubiquitous. Understanding how and why this …

Predicting evolutionary responses to climate change in the sea

PL Munday, RR Warner, K Monro, JM Pandolfi… - Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
An increasing number of short‐term experimental studies show significant effects of
projected ocean warming and ocean acidification on the performance on marine organisms …

[HTML][HTML] Present and future challenges for the investigation of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

M Fallet, M Blanc, M Di Criscio, P Antczak… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Epigenetic pathways are essential in different biological processes and in phenotype-
environment interactions in response to different stressors and they can induce phenotypic …

[BOOK][B] Organism and environment: ecological development, niche construction, and adaptation

SE Sultan - 2015 - books.google.com
Over the past decade, advances in both molecular developmental biology and evolutionary
ecology have made possible a new understanding of organisms as dynamic systems …

Ecological plant epigenetics: Evidence from model and non‐model species, and the way forward

CL Richards, C Alonso, C Becker, O Bossdorf… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Growing evidence shows that epigenetic mechanisms contribute to complex traits, with
implications across many fields of biology. In plant ecology, recent studies have attempted to …

Environmental epigenetics and a unified theory of the molecular aspects of evolution: a neo-Lamarckian concept that facilitates neo-Darwinian evolution

MK Skinner - Genome biology and evolution, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Environment has a critical role in the natural selection process for Darwinian evolution. The
primary molecular component currently considered for neo-Darwinian evolution involves …

Epigenetics in ecology and evolution: what we know and what we need to know.

KJF Verhoeven, BM Vonholdt, VL Sork - Molecular ecology, 2016 - search.ebscohost.com
The article presents information related to epigenetics. It is stated that epigenetics is often
broadly defined and vaguely used and is often applied to the study of chemical tags on DNA …

On the maintenance of genetic variation and adaptation to environmental change: considerations from population genomics in fishes

L Bernatchez - Journal of Fish Biology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The first goal of this paper was to overview modern approaches to local adaptation, with a
focus on the use of population genomics data to detect signals of natural selection in fishes …