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Developmental mechanisms underlying variable, invariant and plastic phenotypes.
Annals of botany - 1 Apr 2016
Abley Katie, Locke James C W, Leyser H M Ottoline
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BACKGROUND: Discussions of phenotypic robustness often consider scenarios where invariant phenotypes are optimal and assume that developmental mechanisms have evolved to buffer the phenotypes of specific traits against stochastic and environmental perturbations. However, plastic plant phenotypes that vary between environments or variable phenotypes that vary stochastically within an environment may also be...
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