Behavioural phenotypes are invariably plastic to some degree and are among the most
labile of phenotypes. Some are acquired over the course of development in a particular …

Phenotypic plasticity plays a key role for the ability of organisms to survive in heterogeneous
environments. The benefits of plasticity ensue from the ability to produce a phenotype …

Objectives Sexual selection typically centers on bodily and psychological traits. Non-bodily
traits ranging from housing and vehicles through art to social media can, however, influence …

Although adaptive plasticity would seem always to be favored by selection, it occurs less
often than expected. This lack of ubiquity suggests that there must be trade-offs, costs, or …

The development of agricultural societies, one of the most transformative events in human
and ecological history, was made possible by plant and animal domestication. Plant …

Understanding population responses to rapid environmental changes caused by
anthropogenic activities, such as pesticides, is a research frontier. Genetic assimilation (GA) …

How often phenotypic plasticity acts to promote or inhibit adaptive evolution is an ongoing
debate among biologists. Recent work suggests that adaptive phenotypic plasticity promotes …

Plasticity-led evolution occurs when a change in the environment triggers a change in
phenotype via phenotypic plasticity, and this pre-existing plasticity is subsequently refined …

Parallel (and convergent) phenotypic variation is most often studied in the wild, where it is
difficult to disentangle genetic vs. environmentally induced effects. As a result, the potential …

Background Our main purpose was to evaluate the expression of plastic and evolved genes
involved in ecological speciation in the noctuid moth Spodoptera frugiperda, the fall …