Article
The other side of phenotypic plasticity: a developmental system that generates an invariant phenotype despite environmental variation.
Journal of biosciences - 1 Oct 2009
Braendle Christian, Felix Marie-Anne
Abstract excerpt
Understanding how the environment impacts development is of central interest in developmental and evolutionary biology. On the one hand, we would like to understand how the environment induces phenotypic changes (the study of phenotypic plasticity). On the other hand, we may ask how a development...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Body Patterning
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Cell Differentiation
- Environment
- Female
- Genotype
- Phenotype
- Vulva
