Phenotypic plasticity and robustness: evolutionary stability theory, gene expression dynamics model, and laboratory experiments.

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Plasticity and robustness, which are two basic concepts in the evolution of developmental dynamics, are characterized in terms of the variance of phenotype distribution. Plasticity concerns the response of a phenotype against environmental and genetic changes, whereas robustness is the degree of insensitivity against such changes. Note that the sensitivity increases with the variance, and the inverse of the...

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