Article
Plasticity, symbionts and niche construction interact in shaping dung beetle development and evolution.
The Journal of experimental biology - 7 Mar 2024
Rohner Patrick T, Jones Joshua A, Moczek Armin P
Abstract excerpt
Developmental plasticity is an important product of evolutionary processes, allowing organisms to maintain high fitness in the face of environmental perturbations. Once evolved, plasticity also has the potential to influence subsequent evolutionary outcomes, for example, by shaping phenotypic variation visible to selection and facilitating the emergence of novel trait variants. Furthermore, organisms may not just...
Topics
- Animals
- Coleoptera
- Introduced Species
- Life History Traits
- Phenotype
