scholarly journals DISENTANGLING THE ROLE OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY AND GENETIC DIVERGENCE IN CONTEMPORARY ECOTYPE FORMATION DURING A BIOLOGICAL INVASION

Evolution ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (9) ◽  
pp. 2619-2632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Lucek ◽  
Arjun Sivasundar ◽  
Ole Seehausen
Keyword(s):  
Phenotypic Plasticity ◽  
Biological Invasion ◽  
Genetic Divergence

The role of hormones

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Frederik Nijhout ◽  
Emily Laub
Keyword(s):  
Phenotypic Plasticity ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Parental Care ◽  
Juvenile Hormone ◽  
Reproductive Behavior ◽  
Hormonal Control ◽  
Plastic Trait

Many behaviors of insects are stimulated, modified, or modulated by hormones. The principal hormones involved are the same as the ones that control moulting, metamorphosis, and other aspects of development, principally ecdysone and juvenile hormone. In addition, a small handful of neurosecretory hormones are involved in the control of specific behaviors. Because behavior is a plastic trait, this chapter begins by outlining the biology and hormonal control of phenotypic plasticity in insects, and how the hormonal control of behavior fits in with other aspects of the control of phenotypic plasticity. The rest of the chapter is organized around the diversity of behaviors that are known to be controlled by or affected by hormones. These include eclosion and moulting behavior, the synthesis and release of pheromones, migration, parental care, dominance, reproductive behavior, and social behavior.

Vertical Migration in Daphnia: The Role of Phenotypic Plasticity in the Migration Pattern for Competing Clones or Species

Oikos ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 129 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Boriss ◽  
W. Gabriel
Keyword(s):  
Phenotypic Plasticity ◽  
Vertical Migration ◽  
Migration Pattern

Phenotypic plasticity with respect to salt stress response by Lotus glaber: the role of its AM fungal and rhizobial symbionts

Mycorrhiza ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 317-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariela Echeverria ◽  
Agustina Azul Scambato ◽  
Analía Inés Sannazzaro ◽  
Santiago Maiale ◽  
Oscar Adolfo Ruiz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Salt Stress ◽  
Stress Response ◽  
Phenotypic Plasticity ◽  
Salt Stress Response ◽  
Lotus Glaber

A Review of the Ecological Role of Chemical Defenses in Facilitating Biological Invasion by Marine Benthic Organisms

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Gualberto Lages ◽  
Beatriz Grosso Fleury ◽  
Joel Christopher Creed
Keyword(s):  
Biological Invasion ◽  
Chemical Defenses ◽  
Benthic Organisms ◽  
Ecological Role ◽  
Marine Benthic Organisms

scholarly journals Phenotypic plasticity as a long-term memory easing readaptations to ancestral environments

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (21) ◽  
pp. eaba3388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Chin Ho ◽  
Diyan Li ◽  
Qing Zhu ◽  
Jianzhi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Phenotypic Plasticity ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Reciprocal Transplant ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Future Evolution ◽  
Egg Hatchability ◽  
Plastic Changes ◽  
Transcriptomic Changes

Phenotypic plasticity refers to environment-induced phenotypic changes without mutation and is present in all organisms. The role of phenotypic plasticity in organismal adaptations to novel environments has attracted much attention, but its role in readaptations to ancestral environments is understudied. To address this question, we use the reciprocal transplant approach to investigate the multitissue transcriptomes of chickens adapted to the Tibetan Plateau and adjacent lowland. While many genetic transcriptomic changes had occurred in the forward adaptation to the highland, plastic changes largely transform the transcriptomes to the preferred state when Tibetan chickens are brought back to the lowland. The same trend holds for egg hatchability, a key component of the chicken fitness. These findings, along with highly similar patterns in comparable experiments of guppies and Escherichia coli, demonstrate that organisms generally “remember” their ancestral environments via phenotypic plasticity and reveal a mechanism by which past experience affects future evolution.

scholarly journals Adaptation to a latitudinal thermal gradient within a widespread copepod species: the contributions of genetic divergence and phenotypic plasticity

2017 ◽  
Vol 284 (1853) ◽  
pp. 20170236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo J. Pereira ◽  
Matthew C. Sasaki ◽  
Ronald S. Burton
Keyword(s):  
Phenotypic Plasticity ◽  
Genetic Divergence ◽  
Thermal Tolerance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Thermal Adaptation ◽  
Common Garden ◽  
Latitudinal Gradients ◽  
Physiological Limits ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
Common Garden Experiments

Understanding how populations adapt to heterogeneous thermal regimes is essential for comprehending how latitudinal gradients in species diversification are formed, and how taxa will respond to ongoing climate change. Adaptation can occur by innate genetic factors, by phenotypic plasticity, or by a combination of both mechanisms. Yet, the relative contribution of such mechanisms to large-scale latitudinal gradients of thermal tolerance across conspecific populations remains unclear. We examine thermal performance in 11 populations of the intertidal copepod Tigriopus californicus , ranging from Baja California Sur (Mexico) to British Columbia (Canada). Common garden experiments show that survivorship to acute heat-stress differs between populations (by up to 3.8°C in LD 50 values), reflecting a strong genetic thermal adaptation. Using a split-brood experiment with two rearing temperatures, we also show that developmental phenotypic plasticity is beneficial to thermal tolerance (by up to 1.3°C), and that this effect differs across populations. Although genetic divergence in heat tolerance strongly correlates with latitude and temperature, differences in the plastic response do not. In the context of climate warming, our results confirm the general prediction that low-latitude populations are most susceptible to local extinction because genetic adaptation has placed physiological limits closer to current environmental maxima, but our results also contradict the prediction that phenotypic plasticity is constrained at lower latitudes.

scholarly journals Jack of all trades, master of some? On the role of phenotypic plasticity in plant invasions

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 981-993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina L. Richards ◽  
Oliver Bossdorf ◽  
Norris Z. Muth ◽  
Jessica Gurevitch ◽  
Massimo Pigliucci
Keyword(s):  
Phenotypic Plasticity ◽  
Plant Invasions

Sheep blood polymorphism and genetic divergence between French Rambouillet and Spanish Merino: role of genetic drift

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. C. NGUYEN ◽  
L. MORERA ◽  
D. LLANES ◽  
P. LEGER
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Drift ◽  
Genetic Divergence ◽  
Sheep Blood
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