Background Plastic responses of plants to the environment are ubiquitous. Phenotypic
plasticity occurs in many forms and at many biological scales, and its adaptive value …

Phenotypic plasticity is defined as the property of organisms to produce distinct phenotypes
in response to environmental variation. While for more than a century, biologists have …

Abstract Development can be altered to match phenotypes with the environment, and the
genetic mechanisms that direct such alternative phenotypes are beginning to be elucidated …

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 …

Polyphenism is a type of developmental plasticity that translates continuous environmental
variability into discontinuous phenotypes. Such discontinuity likely requires a switch …

Phenotypic plasticity, prevalent in all domains of life, enables organisms to cope with
unpredictable or novel changes in their growing environment. Plants represent an …

The prevalent view of developmental phenotypic switching holds that phenotype
modifications occurring during critical windows of development are “irreversible”–that is …

This paper details a system for classifying the trophic relationships of the entire Phylum
Nematoda, together with a table specifying the categories of every valid genus. This system …

Apical extracellular matrices (aECMs) coat exposed surfaces of epithelia to shape
developing tissues and protect them from environmental insults. Despite their widespread …

Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling is essential for numerous biologic functions.
It is a highly conserved pathway found in all metazoans including the nematode …