Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity

CJ Murren, JR Auld, H Callahan, CK Ghalambor… - Heredity, 2015 - nature.com
Phenotypic plasticity is ubiquitous and generally regarded as a key mechanism for enabling
organisms to survive in the face of environmental change. Because no organism is infinitely …

Life‐history evolution in the anthropocene: Effects of increasing nutrients on traits and trade‐offs

E Snell‐Rood, R Cothran, A Espeset… - Evolutionary …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Variation in life‐history traits can have major impacts on the ecological and evolutionary
responses of populations to environmental change. Life‐history variation often results from …

Fear, food and sexual ornamentation: plasticity of colour development in Trinidadian guppies

EW Ruell, CA Handelsman… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The evolution of male ornamentation often reflects compromises between sexual and
natural selection, but it may also be influenced by phenotypic plasticity. We investigated the …

Effects of density on the strength of sexual selection in the laboratory and in nature

RD Cothran, D Schmidenberg, AR Stiff… - Biological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
There is a growing effort to understand how sexual selection varies over space and time
under different ecological conditions and how this can maintain variation in sexual traits. An …

Butterflies do not alter oviposition or larval foraging in response to anthropogenic increases in sodium

TS Mitchell, AM Shephard, CR Kalinowski, ME Kobiela… - Animal Behaviour, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Butterflies did not alter oviposition with respect to sodium levels in
plants.•Caterpillars did not avoid plants containing moderate levels of sodium.•Caterpillars …

Within-population variation in the chemistry of life: the stoichiometry of sexual dimorphism in multiple dimensions

JM Goos, RD Cothran, PD Jeyasingh - Evolutionary ecology, 2017 - Springer
In sexual species, phenotypic divergence between males and females, or sexual
dimorphism, is often the source of the most staggering examples of phenotypic variation in …

The association of feeding behaviour with the resistance and tolerance to parasites in recently diverged sticklebacks

JM Anaya‐Rojas, FS Brunner, N Sommer… - Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Divergent natural selection regimes can contribute to adaptive population divergence, but
can be sensitive to human‐mediated environmental change. Nutrient loading of aquatic …

The role of plasticity in the evolution of cryptic pigmentation in a freshwater isopod

MD Lürig, RJ Best, M Svitok, J Jokela… - Journal of Animal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cryptic pigmentation of prey is often thought to evolve in response to predator‐mediated
selection, but pigmentation traits can also be plastic, and change with respect to both abiotic …

Estimating the dynamics of sexual selection in changing environments

U Candolin, L Vlieger - Evolutionary Biology, 2013 - Springer
Measuring sexual selection in changing environments is challenging, as the targets and
mechanisms of selection can vary with the environment. Here, we present the results of an …

Sex-specific nutrient use and preferential allocation of resources to a sexually selected trait in Hyalella amphipods

JM Goos, RD Cothran… - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
Although sexually dimorphic traits are often well studied, we know little about sex-specific
resource use strategies that should underlie such dimorphism. We measured sex-specific …