Phenotypic plasticity—the ability of an individual organism to change its phenotype in direct
response to variation in its environment—has long fascinated and perplexed biologists …

Phenotypic plasticity is defined as the property of organisms to produce distinct phenotypes
in response to environmental variation. While for more than a century, biologists have …

Phenotypic plasticity of organisms in response to environmental variability is a
welldeveloped concept in ecology and evolutionary biology. It is currently seen as one of the …

For more than two decades the concept of phenotypic plasticity has allowed researchers to
go beyond the nature-nurture dichotomy to gain deeper insights into how organisms are …

Stephen C. Steams ariation, the fuel that feeds evolutionary change, origi-nates at the levels
of both the genotype and the phenotype. Geneti-cally identical organisms reared under …

The concept of phenotypic plasticity has just turned 100 (Woltereck 1909), and yet it is
common both in the published literature and especially in the halls of scientific meetings to …

It is a familiar biological observation that the traits of an organism will vary to some extent
depending on environmental conditions. This individual flexibility is termed 'phenotypic …

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 …

Publisher Summary Environmentally influenced variation in phenotypic expression or
phenotypic plasticity is a fundamental property of organisms with consequences for …

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 …