What is phenotypic plasticity and why is it important

By D. Whitman, A. Agrawal, T. Ananthakrishnan. 2009

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Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Environmental Change and Management Actions for Migrating Fish (2019, background): “The concept of phenotypic plasticity is deceptively simple, and has been previously defined in numerous ways by different authors [see for instance Box 1 in Whitman and Agrawal (2009)].”
The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears Not to Result from Patriarchy or Sex Role Socialization (2015, background): “For example, depending on the type of plant a certain caterpillar feeds on, its physical structure changes to match its surroundings (Whitman and Agrawal 2009).”
Thermal variability alters climatic stress resistance and plastic responses in a globally invasive pest, the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) (2010, background): “Examples of such plastic responses include seasonal or diurnal changes in physiological tolerance to climatic conditions within an organism over its lifetime (reviewed in Huey & Berrigan, 1996; Chown & Terblanche, 2007; Whitman & Agrawal, 2009).”
Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity (2015, background): “…landscapes favors plasticity (for example, van Buskirk, 2002) but there is also the potential for variation in local environments to destabilize homeostasis of development and consequently disrupt the Heredity match between an organism’s phenotype and environment (Whitman and Agrawal, 2009).”