Developmental Plasticity and the Evolutionary Rescue of a Colonizing Mite.

Abstract excerpt

Plasticity, especially in small newly founded populations, can expose genetic variation to selection during the evolutionary rescue of populations, allowing individuals to achieve a phenotype with which they can survive. However, developmental plasticity can also enable organisms to accommodate perturbations, generating new phenotypic variation. We explored whether, at the start of a colonization event, phenotype...

Topics

• Mites
• Genetic Variation
• Acaridae
• Biological Evolution
• Phenotype
• Male
• Female