Developmental plasticity is an important product of evolutionary processes, allowing
organisms to maintain high fitness in the face of environmental perturbations. Once evolved …

The degree to which developmental biases affect trait evolution is subject to much debate.
Here, we first quantify fluctuating asymmetry as a measure of developmental variability, ie …

The degree to which developmental systems bias the phenotypic effects of environmental
and genetic variation, and how these biases affect evolution, is subject to much debate …

Understanding the interplay between genetic differentiation, ancestral plasticity, and the
evolution of plasticity during adaptation to environmental variation is critical to predict …

Phenotypic plasticity can either hinder or promote adaptation to novel environments. Recent
studies that have quantified alignments between plasticity, genetic variation, and divergence …

Evolutionary change requires genetic variation, and a reigning paradigm in biology is that
rates of microevolution can be predicted from estimates of available genetic variation within …

Invasive species may quickly colonize novel environments, which could be attributed to both
phenotypic plasticity and an ability to locally adapt. Reproductive traits are expected to be …

The recent development of human societies has led to major, rapid, and often inexorable
changes in the environment of most animal species. Over the last decades, a growing …

The ability of powered flight in insects facilitated their great evolutionary success allowing
them to occupy various ecological niches. Beyond this primary task, wings are often involved …

Background How novel traits integrate within ancient trait complexes without compromising
ancestral functions is a foundational challenge in evo-devo. The insect head represents an …