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FOXO regulates organ-specific phenotypic plasticity in Drosophila.
PLoS genetics - 1 Nov 2011
Tang Hui Yuan, Smith-Caldas Martha S B, Driscoll Michael V, Salhadar Samy, Shingleton Alexander W
Abstract excerpt
Phenotypic plasticity, the ability for a single genotype to generate different phenotypes in response to environmental conditions, is biologically ubiquitous, and yet almost nothing is known of the developmental mechanisms that regulate the extent of a plastic response. In particular, it is unclear why some traits or individuals are highly sensitive to an environmental variable while other traits or individuals...
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