Aphid wing plasticity: hormonal and epigenetic control mechanisms.

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Insect polyphenisms are an extreme form of phenotypic plasticity that arises when environmental cues are transduced into endocrine signals that redirect development, producing discrete morphs from a single genome. Aphid wing polyphenisms have been important to establishing this framework. In asexual females, stress-inducing conditions result in winged daughters, whereas benign environments yield wingless...

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