Developmental plasticity and the origin of species differences

By M. West-Eberhard. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2005

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The Charr Problem Revisited: Exceptional Phenotypic Plasticity Promotes Ecological Speciation in Postglacial Lakes (2010, methodology): “…work, by a shift of focus from structure to process, by employing new molecular genetics methods, and by fitting results into modern theory of developmental, phenotypic plasticity (West-Eberhardt, 2003, 2005), adaptive radiation (Schluter, 2000) and adaptive speciation (Dieckmann et al., 2004).”
Cryptic species, phenotypic plasticity, and complex life histories: Assessing deep-sea faunal diversity with molecular markers (2009, neutral): “changing (West-Eberhard, 2005).”
Adaptive phenotypic plasticity and plant water use (2010, background): “seen as a troublesome source of noise to being accepted as a characteristic that is itself under selection and of ecological and evolutionary significance (Via et al. 1995; Reymond et al. 2003;Schlichting2004;deJong2005;Murrenetal.2005; West-Eberhard 2005; Forde 2009).”
Home site advantage in two long‐lived arctic plant species: results from two 30‐year reciprocal transplant studies (2012, background): “Although phenotypic plasticity and genetic differentiation have been described as alternate solutions for copingwith environmental variability (Schlichting 1986; Levin 1988), there is growing evidence that phenotypic plasticity may facilitate genetic differentiation in response to environmental vari”
The self-domestication hypothesis: evolution of bonobo psychology is due to selection against aggression (2012, background): “…morphology is unknown, but such correlated changes can in theory derive from a variety of mechanisms including common regulatory genes, linkage disequilibrium and an epigenetic interaction (Zohary et al. 1998; West-Eberhard 2003, 2005; Ruff et al. 2006; Stock 2006; Zhang & Meaney 2010).”
Underappreciated Consequences of Phenotypic Plasticity for Ecological Speciation (2012, background): “Whether developmental plasticity rivals mutation as a source of quantitative or qualitative change (the evolution of “novelty”) remains contentious [17, 80, 116].”