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The Role of DAF-21/Hsp90 in Mouth-Form Plasticity in Pristionchus pacificus.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jul 2017
Sieriebriennikov Bogdan, Markov Gabriel V, Witte Hanh, Sommer Ralf J
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Phenotypic plasticity is increasingly recognized to facilitate adaptive change in plants and animals, including insects, nematodes, and vertebrates. Plasticity can occur as continuous or discrete (polyphenisms) variation. In social insects, for example, in ants, some species have workers of distinct size classes while in other closely related species variation in size may be continuous. Despite the abundance of...
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