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Developmental plasticity and evolution--quo vadis?
Review in Heredity, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Why study plasticity in multiple traits? New hypotheses for how phenotypically plastic traits interact during development and selection.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- The intraspecific diversity of tooth morphology in the large-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus stellaris: insights into the ontogenetic cues driving sexual dimorphism.Journal of anatomy · 2020Article
- Hypoxia-induced reprogramming of the cardiac phenotype in American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) revealed by quantitative proteomics.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Differential Evolution of the Epidermal Keratin Cytoskeleton in Terrestrial and Aquatic Mammals.Molecular biology and evolution · 2019Article
- Degeneracy and genetic assimilation in RNA evolution.BMC bioinformatics · 2018Article
- The effects of embryonic hypoxic programming on cardiovascular function and autonomic regulation in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) at rest and during swimming.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2018Article
- Assessing elements of an extended evolutionary synthesis for plant domestication and agricultural origin research.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Developmental plasticity of mitochondrial function in American alligators, Alligator mississippiensis.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2016Article
- The Role of Heritable Tumors in Evolution of Development: a New Theory of Carcino-evo-devo.Acta naturaeArticle
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Abstract
The role of developmental (phenotypic) plasticity in ecology and evolution is receiving a growing appreciation among the biologists, and many plasticity-specific concepts have become well established as part of the mainstream evolutionary biological thinking. In this essay, I posit that despite this progress several key perspectives in developmental plasticity remain remarkably traditional, and that it may be time to re-evaluate their continued usefulness in the face of the available evidence as the field looks to its future. Specifically, I discuss the utility of viewing plastic development as ultimately rooted in genes and genomes, and investigate the common notion that the environment--albeit a critical source of information--nevertheless remains passive, external to and separable from the organism responding to it. I end by highlighting conceptual and empirical opportunities that may permit developmental plasticity research to transcend its current boundaries and to continue its contributions toward a holistic and realistic understanding of organismal development and evolution.
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