A histone demethylase links the loss of plasticity to nongenetic inheritance and morphological change

NA Levis, EJ Ragsdale - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Plasticity is a widespread feature of development, enabling phenotypic change based on the
environment. Although the evolutionary loss of plasticity has been linked both theoretically …

Molecular basis of phenotypic plasticity in a marine ciliate

J Pan, Y Wang, C Li, S Zhang, Z Ye, J Ni, H Li… - The ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Phenotypic plasticity, which involves phenotypic transformation in the absence of genetic
change, may serve as a strategy for organisms to survive in complex and highly fluctuating …

Feeding‐structure morphogenesis in “rhabditid” and diplogastrid nematodes is not controlled by a conserved genetic module

T Theska, RJ Sommer - Evolution & Development, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Disentangling the evolution of the molecular processes and genetic networks that facilitate
the emergence of morphological novelties is one of the main objectives in evolutionary …

Genetic regulators of a resource polyphenism interact to couple predatory morphology and behaviour

RM Nicholson, NA Levis, EJ Ragsdale - Proceedings B, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Phenotypic plasticity often requires the coordinated response of multiple traits observed
individually as morphological, physiological or behavioural. The integration, and hence …

EBAX-1/ZSWIM8 destabilizes miRNAs resulting in transgenerational memory of a predatory trait

SP Quiobe, A Kalirad, W Roeseler, H Witte, Y Wang… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Environmental influences on traits and associated transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
have widespread implications, but remain controversial and underlying mechanisms poorly …