... these critical windows, resulting in immediate and potentially long-term consequences for survival and fitness ( Kirschman et al., 2018 ; McDermott Long et al., 2017 ). Although developmental plasticity can buffer the impacts of environmental variability on survival, plasticity often results in phenotypic trade...

... Maternal effect Yolk hormone Androgen Progesterone Developmental plasticity National Science Foundation http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001 DEB-1701672 DEB-1350107 IOS-1656120 IOS-1349178 DEB-1651283 DEB-1241041 Montana Institute on Ecosystems http://dx.doi.org/10.13039...

... and hypoxia dramatically increase the cost of lactation. Nursing highland female deer mice may compensate for high RMR (70-85% of maximum aerobic metabolism) with reduced maternal care. Maternal behaviour Lactation Developmental plasticity Maternal–offspring conflict Peromyscus Author...

...Aimee Ellison; Amara Pouv; Douglas A. Pace ABSTRACT Food-induced morphological plasticity, a type of developmental plasticity, is a well-documented phenomenon in larvae of the echinoid echinoderm, Dendraster excentricus . A recent study in our lab has shown that this morphological plasticity...

... on breathing. Developmental plasticity Parental effects Hypoxic metabolic response Hypoxic ventilatory response Environmental conditions experienced during early development can play an important role in shaping adult phenotypes. Developmental plasticity is defined as the process where...

.... and Strathmann , R. R. ( 1998 ). Effects of maternal and larval nutrition on growth and form of planktotrophic larvae . Ecology   79 , 315 - 327 . 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[0315:EOMALN]2.0.CO;2 Blank , T. and Burggren , W. ( 2014 ). Hypoxia induced developmental plasticity of the gills...

... survive and dramatically alter their skull shape and feeding, developing superficial resemblance to distantly related jawless vertebrates. Skeletal remodeling Developmental plasticity Skull Ankylosis Gnathostome Agnatha CRISPR TALEN bapx The jaw is a functionally versatile...

... expect such associations in adaptive developmental plasticity scenarios, because natural selection might have promoted genotypes that mitigate those potential costs of rapid development. To address these contrasting propositions, we assessed life history traits in the wolf spider Pardosa agrestis , both...

.../ Summary: Experimental increases in glucocorticoids in breeding female North American red squirrels affects offspring postnatal growth but not levels of oxidative damage and antioxidants or telomere lengths. Developmental plasticity Life history Maternal effects Tamiasciurus hudsonicus...

.... , McCormick , M. I. and Nilsson , G. E. ( 2011 ). Acclimation to predicted ocean warming through developmental plasticity in a tropical reef fish . Glob. Chang. Biol.   17 , 1712 - 1719 . 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02339.x Donelson , J. M. , McCormick , M. I. , Booth , D. J...

...Peter Klepsatel; Thirnahalli Nagaraj Girish; Heinrich Dircksen; Martina Gáliková ABSTRACT Whether the character of developmental plasticity is adaptive or non-adaptive has often been a matter of controversy. Although thermal developmental plasticity has been studied in Drosophila for several traits...

... acidification Developmental plasticity Climate variability Phenotypic plasticity in its many forms has been documented in detail for adult organisms (see Auge et al., 2017 ; Dewitt et al., 1998 ; Forsman, 2014 ; Gabriel, 2006 ; Ghalambor et al., 2007 ; Kelly et al., 2012 ; Lande, 2015 ; Moczek...

..., with individuals deciding to either develop/reproduce directly or interrupt development/reproduction and enter diapause, it exemplifies adaptive developmental plasticity ( Gotthard and Nylin, 1995 ). Although diapause induction has been studied extensively during the last 100 years on many functional levels...

... during development. Potentially, developmentally plastic shifts in thermal tolerance could allow lizards to adapt to climate warming. To determine how higher nest temperatures affect the thermal tolerance of hatchling geckos, we incubated eggs of the rock-dwelling velvet gecko, Amalosia lesueurii...

... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2016 Summary: Basking opportunity strongly affects maternal thermoregulation and gestation length in a ‘nocturnal’ gecko; spontaneously born offspring from a cool regime are small, but consistent phenotypic effects from delayed parturition are lacking. Developmental...

... the amphibious fish Kryptolebias marmoratus consume less oxygen and reach hatching competency with larger yolk reserves relative to embryos reared in water. Developmental plasticity Developmental rate Oxygen consumption Operculum Chorion Mangrove rivulus Oxygen availability significantly...

... development, including both linear and non-linear responses for different traits. Developmental plasticity Testosterone Androstenedione Maternal effects Sturnus unicolor Hormone transfer Females can influence the phenotype of their offspring through genes and somatic investments...

... of Biologists Ltd 2015 Summary: Nematode predatory feeding as studied in Pristionchus pacificus acts through serotonin and is dependent on developmental plasticity that controls a mouth-form dimorphism. Predation behaviour Pristionchus pacificus Neurotransmitter Developmental plasticity...

... and ambient O 2 . Am. J. Physiol.   276 , R505 - R513 . Beldade   P. , Mateus   A. R. A. , Keller   R. A. ( 2011 ). Evolution and molecular mechanisms of adaptive developmental plasticity . Mol. Ecol.   20 , 1347 - 1363 . Blier   P. U. , Lemieux   H. ( 2001 ). The impact...

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