Developmental plasticity and evolution

By M. West-Eberhard. 2003

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology

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Habitat structure, feeding mode and morphological reversibility: factors influencing phenotypic plasticity in perch (2005, background): “Phenotypic plasticity, the ability of a single genotype to produce more than one alternative form of morphology in response to environmental conditions (West-Eberhard, 1989), has been demonstrated to occur in all major groups of organisms (reviewed in Via et al., 1995; Agrawal, 2001; West-Eberhard, ”
The fitness costs of adaptation via phenotypic plasticity and maternal effects (2014, background): “components which are modified by physiological, developmental and environmental cues (West-Eberhard 2003).”
Adaptive phenotypic plasticity and resilience of vertebrates to increasing climatic unpredictability. (2010, background): “Morphological plasticity of whole body size is more widespread in reptiles than in mammals, which show only flexibility of some body parts (gut size, kidney, heart; reviewed in West-Eberhard 2003).”
A taxonomy of biological information (2010, background): “Developmental plasticity can also increase phenotypic variation on which selection can act (West-Eberhard 2003).”
Contextual Behavioral Science: Creating a science more adequate to the challenge of the human condition (2012, background): “There is increasing awareness that developmental plasticity is critical to both gene expression and to genetic evolution itself (Schneider, 2012; West-Eberhard, 2003).”
Diet predicts intestine length in Lake Tanganyika’s cichlid fishes (2009, background): “In the latter scenario, natural selection could amplify initially small morphological changes initiated by plasticity (West-Eberhard 2003; Crispo 2007).”
The Return of the Organism as a Fundamental Explanatory Concept in Biology (2014, background): “West-Eberhard (2003, 2005) has argued that phenotypic plasticity (i.e. the capacity of a single genotype to generate different phenotypes in response to variable environmental conditions) plays a pivotal role in adaptive evolution because it leads to phenotypic innovations that can later be…”
The Adaptive Calibration Model of stress responsivity (2010, neutral): “West-Eberhard (2003) has modeled the role of switchcontrolled modular systems in development.”
Assortative Pairing and Life History Strategy (2009, background): “Genetic diversification of offspring represents a bet-hedging strategy that evolved as an adaptation to unpredictable environmental contingencies and when environmental cues that might otherwise selectively trigger developmentally plastic changes are relatively unreliable or invalid (Figueredo et al”
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Prevalence, Mechanisms, and Implications for the Study of Heredity and Evolution (2009, positive): “West-Eberhard (2003) suggested that environmentally-induced changes during development guide the selection of genetic changes that simulate, stabilize, and ameliorate any detrimental effects of induced developmental changes.”
Genetic and environmental contributions to the morphology of lake and stream stickleback: implications for gene flow and reproductive isolation (2008, background): “Sharpe may interact in a variety of complicated ways (Conover and Schultz, 1995; Schlichting and Pigliucci, 1998; West-Eberhard, 2003 ).”
Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo (2005, neutral): “, 2001a, b), the replacement of emergent by hierarchical mechanisms would also have had the result that organisms became less ‘‘evolvable” (Riedl, 1977; Wagner and Altenberg, 1996; West-Eberhard, 2003).”
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, background): “Issues studied include the evolutionary origins of phenotypic novelty, how fitness improvements are made without compromising past adaptation, influences and constraints on the rate and course of evolution, and whether evolvability, evolutionary adaptability, can itself evolve (Kirschner & Gerhart 1”
The juvenile transition: A developmental switch point in human life history (2009, neutral): “In addition, as people grow up they Author's personal copy degree of ‘‘disconnection” between stage-speciﬁc stage-speciﬁc phenotypes (West-Eberhard, 2003; Wilkins, 2002).”