Genomics of developmental plasticity in animals

E Lafuente, P Beldade - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Developmental plasticity refers to the property by which the same genotype produces
distinct phenotypes depending on the environmental conditions under which development …

Thermal plasticity in insects' response to climate change and to multifactorial environments

YK Rodrigues, P Beldade - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Phenotypic plasticity, the property by which living organisms express different phenotypes
depending on environmental conditions, can impact their response to environmental …

A review on self‐healing polymers for applications in spacecraft and construction of roads

M Goyal, SN Agarwal… - Journal of Applied Polymer …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐healing polymers (SHP) are the polymers that have the capability to recover the
material from any physical damage by responding to the damages or cracks in the material …

From molecules to management: mechanisms and consequences of locust phase polyphenism

DA Cullen, AJ Cease, AV Latchininsky, A Ayali… - Advances in insect …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Locusts are grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) that are characterised by their
capacity for extreme population density-dependent polyphenism, transforming between a …

Evolution, diversification, and biogeography of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

H Song, R Mariño-Pérez, DA Woller… - Insect Systematics and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The grasshopper family Acrididae is one of the most diverse lineages within Orthoptera,
including more than 6,700 valid species distributed worldwide. Grasshoppers are dominant …

New estimates of genome size in Orthoptera and their evolutionary implications

O Hawlitschek, D Sadílek, LS Dey, K Buchholz… - PLoS one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Animal genomes vary widely in size, and much of their architecture and content remains
poorly understood. Even among related groups, such as orders of insects, genomes may …

Assessing the evidence for treating developmental plasticity and phenotypic flexibility as different phenomena

M Stager, JP Velotta, ZA Cheviron… - Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Phenotypic plasticity has long played a central role in eco‐evolutionary theory, but it was not
until 20 years ago that it was proposed that the term encompasses two distinct phenomena …

The foraging Gene and Its Behavioral Effects: Pleiotropy and Plasticity

I Anreiter, MB Sokolowski - Annual review of genetics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The Drosophila melanogaster foraging (for) gene is a well-established example of a gene
with major effects on behavior and natural variation. This gene is best known for underlying …

Eight Million Years of Satellite DNA Evolution in Grasshoppers of the Genus Schistocerca Illuminate the Ins and Outs of the Library Hypothesis

OM Palacios-Gimenez, D Milani, H Song… - Genome biology and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Satellite DNA (satDNA) is an abundant class of tandemly repeated noncoding sequences,
showing high rate of change in sequence, abundance, and physical location. However, the …

Climate change expected to improve digestive rate and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts

JP Youngblood, AJ Cease, S Talal… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Global climate change will probably exacerbate crop losses from insect pests, reducing
agricultural production, and threatening food security. To predict where crop losses will …