Patterns of sleep often vary among individuals. But sleep and activity may also vary within
an individual, fluctuating in pattern across time. One possibility is that these daily fluctuations …

For crop production it is desirable for the mapping between genotype and phenotype to be
consistent, such that an optimized genotype produces uniform sets of individual plants …

Abstract Background and Aims Plants growing at high densities perceive a decrease in the
red to far-red (R/FR) ratio of incoming light. These changes in light quality trigger a suite of …

Developmental stability and canalization describe the ability of developmental systems to
minimize phenotypic variation in the face of stochastic micro‐environmental effects, genetic …

Most studies investigating quantitative traits focus on mean levels per genotype rather than
the variation between different individuals of one genotype or the variation elicited by …

Abstract Background and Aims Floral development is remarkably robust in terms of the
identity and number of floral organs in each whorl, whereas vegetative development can be …

Developmental mechanisms that canalize or compensate perturbations of organismal
development (targeted or compensatory growth) are widely considered a prerequisite of …

Interspecific competition reduces resource availability and can affect evolution. We
quantified multivariate selection in the presence and absence of strong interspecific …

The genetic basis of stochastic variation within a defined environment, and the
consequences of such micro-environmental variance for fitness are poorly understood …

Recent work has shown that genetic robustness can either facilitate or impede adaptation.
But the impact of environmental robustness on adaptation remains unclear. Environmental …