...Cornelia Fanter; Carla Madelaire; Diane P. Genereux; Frank van Breukelen; Danielle Levesque; Allyson Hindle ABSTRACT Quantifying the relative importance of genomic and epigenomic modulators of phenotype is a focal challenge in comparative physiology, but progress is constrained by availability...

... fluctuating temperatures with those of commonly used laboratory regimes on development of lizard embryos and offspring phenotypes and survival. We incubated eggs in four treatments: three that followed procedures commonly used in the literature, and one that precisely mimicked naturally fluctuating nest...

... and sensitive periods as 3-D constructs in time and space . Physiol. Biochem. Zool.   88 , 91 - 102 . 10.1086/679906 Burggren , W. W. and Reyna , K. S. ( 2011 ). Developmental trajectories, critical windows and phenotypic alteration during cardio-respiratory development . Resp. Physiol...

...Günter Vogt; Martin Huber; Markus Thiemann; Gerald van den Boogaart; Oliver J. Schmitz; Christoph D. Schubart SUMMARY The phenotype of an organism is determined by the genes, the environment and stochastic developmental events. Although recognized as a basic biological principle influencing life...

...T. C. Hawes; J. S. Bale SUMMARY Low-temperature acclimation and acclimatization produce phenotypic changes in arthropods at multiple levels of biological organization from the molecular to the behavioural. The role and function of plasticity – where a constitutive, reversible change occurs...

...Hans Hoppeler; Martin Flück SUMMARY Since muscle mass makes up such a high proportion of total body mass, there must have been considerable selective pressure to minimize the cost of maintenance and to maximize the functionality of muscle tissue for all species. Phenotypic plasticity of muscle...