A generalised approach to the study and understanding of adaptive evolution

P Edelaar, J Otsuka, VJ Luque - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary theory has made large impacts on our understanding and management of the
world, in part because it has been able to incorporate new data and new insights …

Sexual conflict, heterochrony and tissue specificity as evolutionary problems of adaptive plasticity in development

AD Cutter - Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Differential gene expression represents a fundamental cause and manifestation of
phenotypic plasticity. Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in gene expression as a trait evolves …

[HTML][HTML] Phenotypic plasticity made simple, but not too simple

R Gomulkiewicz, JR Stinchcombe - American Journal of Botany, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Phenotypic plasticity refers to environment‐dependent trait expression (Dewitt and Scheiner,
2004). 1 Knowledge of phenotypic plasticity is important in virtually all areas of basic and …

Developing the genotype‐to‐phenotype relationship in evolutionary theory: A primer of developmental features

EC Snell‐Rood, SM Ehlman - Evolution & Development, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
For decades, there have been repeated calls for more integration across evolutionary and
developmental biology. However, critiques in the literature and recent funding initiatives …

A neglected conceptual problem regarding phenotypic plasticity's role in adaptive evolution: The importance of genetic covariance and social drive

NW Bailey, C Desjonquères, A Drago… - Evolution …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
There is tantalizing evidence that phenotypic plasticity can buffer novel, adaptive genetic
variants long enough to permit their evolutionary spread, and this process is often invoked in …

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity alter the cost of plasticity in Pristionchus pacificus

A Kalirad, RJ Sommer - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Phenotypic plasticity, the ability of a single genotype to produce distinct phenotypes under
different environmental conditions, has become a leading concept in ecology and …

Early effects of gene duplication on the robustness and phenotypic variability of gene regulatory networks

YS Posadas-García, C Espinosa-Soto - BMC bioinformatics, 2022 - Springer
Background Research on gene duplication is abundant and comes from a wide range of
approaches, from high-throughput analyses and experimental evolution to bioinformatics …

Niche construction in hunter-gatherer infancy: growth and health trade-offs inform social agency

P Ivey Henry, GA Morelli - Evolutionary Perspectives on Infancy, 2022 - Springer
New theory and data provide insights on the dynamic environmental, biological, and social
processes that comprise infancy among Congo Basin hunter-gatherers. Together with …

Condition-dependence resolves the paradox of missing plasticity costs

SP De Lisle, L Rowe - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Phenotypic plasticity plays a key role in adaptation to changing environments. However,
plasticity is neither perfect nor ubiquitous, implying that fitness costs must limit the evolution …

Condition dependence and the paradox of missing plasticity costs

SP De Lisle, L Rowe - Evolution Letters, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Phenotypic plasticity plays a key role in adaptation to changing environments. However,
plasticity is neither perfect nor ubiquitous, implying that fitness costs may limit the evolution …