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Adaptive developmental plasticity: what is it, how can we recognize it and when can it evolve?

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Aug 2015

Nettle Daniel, Bateson Melissa

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Developmental plasticity describes situations where a specific input during an individual's development produces a lasting alteration in phenotype. Some instances of developmental plasticity may be adaptive, meaning that the tendency to produce the phenotype conditional on having experienced the developmental input has been under positive selection. We discuss the necessary assumptions and predictions of...

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PMID: 26203000
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1005
PMCID: PMC4528519

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