Predictability of biotic stress structures plant defence evolution

D Mertens, K Boege, A Kessler, J Koricheva… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
To achieve ecological and reproductive success, plants need to mitigate a multitude of
stressors. The stressors encountered by plants are highly dynamic but typically vary …

[КНИГА][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 …

Disentangling variational bias: the roles of development, mutation, and selection

H Cai, D Melo, DL Des Marais - Trends in Genetics, 2024 - cell.com
The extraordinary diversity and adaptive fit of organisms to their environment depends
fundamentally on the availability of variation. While most population genetic frameworks …

Evidence of epistasis in regions of long-range linkage disequilibrium across five complex diseases in the UK Biobank and eMERGE datasets

P Singhal, Y Veturi, SM Dudek, A Lucas, A Frase… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Leveraging linkage disequilibrium (LD) patterns as representative of population substructure
enables the discovery of additive association signals in genome-wide association studies …

Temporal variability and cell mechanics control robustness in mammalian embryogenesis

D Fabrèges, B Corominas-Murtra, P Moghe, A Kickuth… - Science, 2024 - science.org
How living systems achieve precision in form and function despite their intrinsic stochasticity
is a fundamental yet ongoing question in biology. We generated morphomaps of …

[PDF][PDF] 15 Plasticity and Evolutionary Theory: Where We Are and Where We Should Be Going

CD Schlichting - Phenotypic Plasticity & Evolution, 2021 - library.oapen.org
Although the evolutionary importance of adaptive phenotypic plasticity as a mechanism of
adaptation to spatial and temporal environmental variation is acknowledged as part of the …

Conceptual roles of evolvability across evolutionary biology: Between diversity and unification

C Villegas, AC Love, L Nuño de la Rosa, I Brigandt… - 2021 - philsci-archive.pitt.edu
A number of biologists and philosophers have noted the diversity of interpretations of
evolvability in contemporary evolutionary research. Different clusters of research identified …

Rapid evolution of phenotypic plasticity in patchy habitats

NT Promy, M Newberry, D Gulisija - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Phenotypic plasticity may evolve rapidly, enabling a population's persistence in the face of
sudden environmental change. Rapid evolution can occur when there is considerable …

Bet‐hedging via dispersal aids the evolution of plastic responses to unreliable cues

JA Draghi - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Adaptive plasticity is expected to evolve when informative cues predict environmental
variation. However, plastic responses can be maladaptive even when those cues are …

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 …