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 …

Human-and nature-induced hypersaline conditions in coastal systems can lead to profound
alterations of the structure and vitality of seagrass meadows and their socio-ecological …

Biodiversity requires explanation. Why are there so many different kinds of living things, and
where do their unique features come from? Historically, biologists have attempted to …

Phenotypic plasticity is fundamentally a physiological phenomenon. Whether the phenotypic
outcome of plasticity is the preservation of form ('homeostasis'), fleeting change, more …

ABSTRACT In Developmental Plasticity and Evolution, Mary-Jane West-Eberhard argued
that the developmental mechanisms that enable organisms to respond to their environment …

Repeated island colonisation by Australian tiger snakes (Notechis scutatus) has become a
model system demonstrating how prey size on islands influences a snake's body and jaw …

Ecological causes of developmental evolution, for example from predation, remain much
investigated, but the potential importance of latent phenotypes in eco-evo-devo has received …

Livebearing fishes (Poeciliidae) have been used as models to test several aspects of life
history theory. Previous work in these fishes showed that traits such as age and size at …

I review the controversy advanced by advocates of an “extended evolutionary
synthesis”(EES) in the light of other controversies in evolutionary biology since the …

Great efforts have been sustained to explain the relationships between genotype and
phenotype for developmental fitness traits through the study of their genetic architecture …