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Extreme developmental instability associated with wing plasticity in pea aphids.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 28 Oct 2020
Hammelman Rachel E, Heusinkveld Carrie L, Hung Emily T, Meineke Alydia, Parker Benjamin J, Brisson Jennifer A
Abstract excerpt
A key focus of evolutionary developmental biology is on how phenotypic diversity is generated. In particular, both plasticity and developmental instability contribute to phenotypic variation among genetically identical individuals, but the interactions between the two phenomena and their general fitness impacts are unclear. We discovered a striking example of asymmetry in pea aphids: the presence of wings on one...
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