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Life-history evolution and the polyphenic regulation of somatic maintenance and survival.

The Quarterly review of biology - 1 Sept 2013

Flatt Thomas, Amdam Gro V, Kirkwood Thomas B L, Omholt Stig W

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Here we discuss life-history evolution from the perspective of adaptive phenotypic plasticity, with a focus on polyphenisms for somatic maintenance and survival. Polyphenisms are adaptive discrete alternative phenotypes that develop in response to changes in the environment. We suggest that dauer larval diapause and its associated adult phenotypes in the nematode (Caenorhabditis elegans), reproductive dormancy in...

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PMID: 24053071
DOI: 10.1086/671484

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