[PDF] Top 20 The phenotypic plasticity of developmental modules

... Results: Although the size of the abdominal melanic bands varied according to rearing temperatures, wing melanic bands were more robust. To explore the regulation of abdominal pigmentation plasticity, candidate ... See full document

... When considering the effect of wing shape on flight performance, several descriptors have been used in the literature. The simplest is the wing aspect ratio (AR), which estimates wing elongation relative to area ... See full document

... Despite the potential effect of timing of stress on development and function of various traits, few studies on cognition in birds have taken this factor into consideration. A recent study on Japanese quail demonstrated ... See full document

... is developmental programs, by which single cells and their single genomes diversify, via relatively deterministic processes, into the sets of cell types, tissues and organs that we see in most multicellular ...is ... See full document

... ‘….the plasticity of an arthropod’s response varies in response to endogenous ...of plasticity, such as ‘the change in the expressed phenotype of a genotype as a function of the environment,’ provided by ... See full document

... of plasticity, to identify adaptive reasons why individuals may be more or less sensitive to envir- onmental cues at different points in ...that plasticity is favoured when organisms are uncertain about the ... See full document

... called phenotypic integration to imply tight connections between traits or phenotypic independence to refer to connections that are readily uncoupled (dis- cussed in ... See full document

... of plasticity of a single trait; juve- nile developmental rate, in the combined scenario after transplant to the control (as is indicated by the presence of the significant transplant by generation ... See full document

... how phenotypic plasticity can lead to the evolution of specialization or adaptations ...developmental plasticity. West-Eberhard (2003) proposed that developmental plasticity ... See full document

... Phenotypic plasticity is usually defined as a property of individual genotypes to produce different phenotypes when exposed to different environmental conditions ...all phenotypic plasticity ... See full document

... adult: juvenile hormone and ecdysteroids (e.g. Cruz et al. 2003; Davidowitz and Nijhout 2004; Flatt and Heyland 2011; Gelman et al. 2002; Riddiford 1993; Riddiford et al. 2003; Truman and Riddiford 2007). Furthermore, ... See full document

... the phenotypic plasticity is determined by the developmental stage, stress duration and stress severity in the genotype-dependent manner (Sivamani et ...of phenotypic plasticity as a ... See full document

... longer developmental times could provide more opportunity for a developing organism to encounter environmental stressors, potentially reducing the organism ’ s fitness, especially in a highly variable ...earlier ... See full document

... previous phenotypic composition, regardless of the specific pheno- type of the original cell, showing that stochastic transi- tions happen between all of the four ... See full document

... tinct. Phenotypic plasticity — ...time. Plasticity can thus be studied as a trait under selection: organisms unable to respond adaptively to environmental pressures by lack of plasticity or ... See full document

... Seasonality of weather is increasingly superimposed by global climatic changes (Walther et al., 2002; Williams and Middleton, 2008). However, it remains largely unknown how different endothermic species and conspecifics ... See full document

... typic plasticity may foster the ability of cancer cells to develop resilience and/or resistance to chemotherapy in vivo and may also be involved in other processes fostering increased tumor fitness and ...between ... See full document

... permanent phenotypic modifications that are caused by changes in gene expression; during the first stage of CR these modifications are basically adaptive with a normalized economy and the main trigger is ... See full document

... laboratory strain. This study was motivated by the notion that chemoreception is for many organisms the principal sensory modality that conveys information about the environment. In the study described in Chapter 3, I ... See full document

... Cardiac fibroblasts (CF) play a pivotal role in the repair and remodeling of the heart that occurs following myocardial infarction (MI). The transition through the inflammatory, granulation and maturation phases of ... See full document