ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2022
Developmental bias in the evolution and plasticity of beetle horn shape.
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- Evolvability: progress and key questions.Bioscience · 2025Review
- Developmental lines of least resistance predict standing genetic covariation but do not constrain plasticity or rapid evolution.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Conserved wing shape variation across biological scales unveils dialectical relationships between micro- and macroevolution.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Macroevolution along developmental lines of least resistance in fly wings.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Developmental noise and phenotypic plasticity are correlated inEvolution letters · 2024Article
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- Developmental bias as a cause and consequence of adaptive radiation and divergence.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Review
- Gene regulatory networks underlying the development and evolution of plasticity in horned beetles.Current opinion in insect science · 2023Review
- Developmental bias predicts 60 million years of wing shape evolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Developmental bias in the evolution and plasticity of beetle horn shape.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
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. Here, we assess whether developmental variability in beetle horn shape aligns with the phenotypic effects of plasticity and evolutionary divergence, yielding three salient results. First, we find that most pathways previously shown to regulate horn length also affect shape. Second, we find that the phenotypic effects of manipulating divergent developmental pathways are correlated with each other as well as multivariate fluctuating asymmetry-a measure of developmental variability. Third, these effects further aligned with thermal plasticity, population differences and macroevolutionary divergence between sister taxa and more distantly related species. Collectively, our results support the hypothesis that changes in horn shape-whether brought about by environmentally plastic responses, functional manipulations or evolutionary divergences-converge along 'developmental lines of least resistance', i.e. are biased by the developmental system underpinning horn shape.
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