Phenotypic plasticity can serve as a stepping stone towards adaptation. Recently, studies
have shown that gene expression contributes to emergent stress responses such as thermal …

Adaptations of post‐hatching animals have attracted far more study than have embryonic
responses to environmental challenges, but recent research suggests that we have …

Background Epigenetic processes are proposed to be a mechanism regulating gene
expression during phenotypic plasticity. However, environmentally induced changes in DNA …

Ocean acidification (OA) is one of many major global climate changes that pose a variety of
risks to marine ecosystems in different ways. Meanwhile, there is growing concern about …

For marine invertebrates with a pelagic–benthic life cycle, larval exposure to ocean
acidification (OA) can affect adult performance in response to another environmental …

The roles of DNA methylation in invertebrates are poorly characterized, and critical data are
missing for the phylum Annelida. We fill this knowledge gap by conducting the first genome …

Marine heatwave (MHW) events, characterized by periods of anomalous temperatures, are
an increasingly prevalent threat to coastal marine ecosystems. Given the seasonal …

DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification with a very long evolutionary history.
However, DNA methylation evolves surprisingly rapidly across eukaryotes. The genome …

There is great interest in exploring epigenetic modifications as drivers of adaptive
organismal responses to environmental change. Extending this hypothesis to populations …

Algal symbiont shuffling in favour of more thermotolerant species has been shown to
enhance coral resistance to heat‐stress. Yet, the mechanistic underpinnings and long‐term …