Phenotypic plasticity–the ability of an individual organism to alter its features in direct
response to a change in its environment–is ubiquitous. Understanding how and why this …

Building a genotype-phenotype-fitness map of adaptation is a central goal in evolutionary
biology. It is difficult even when adaptive mutations are known because it is hard to …

Phenotypic plasticity, the ability of an organism to display different phenotypes across
environments, is widespread in nature. Plasticity aids survival in novel environments …

Spontaneous and induced mutations frequently show different phenotypic effects across
genetically distinct individuals. It is generally appreciated that these background effects …

Although the evolutionary importance of adaptive phenotypic plasticity as a mechanism of
adaptation to spatial and temporal environmental variation is acknowledged as part of the …

Phenotypic plasticity is the ability of a given genotype to produce multiple phenotypes in
response to changing environmental conditions. Understanding the genetic basis of …

Anthropogenic change exposes populations to environments that have been rare or entirely
absent from their evolutionary past. Such novel environments are hypothesized to release …

Genetic dissection of highly polygenic traits is a challenge, in part due to the power
necessary to confidently identify loci with minor effects. Experimental crosses are valuable …

Dissecting the genetic mechanisms underlying agronomic traits is of great importance for
crop breeding. Agronomic traits are usually controlled by multiple quantitative trait loci …

Premise The evolutionary response of a trait to environmental change depends upon the
level of additive genetic variance. It has been long argued that sustained selection will tend …