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Developmental mechanisms underlying variable, invariant and plastic phenotypes

Author(s) -

Katie Abley,

James Locke,

Ottoline Leyser

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

annals of botany

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.567

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1095-8290

pISSN - 0305-7364

DOI - 10.1093/aob/mcw016

Subject(s) - phenotype , biology , phenotypic plasticity , multicellular organism , robustness (evolution) , evolutionary biology , genetics , phenotypic trait , gene

Discussions of phenotypic robustness often consider scenarios where invariant phenotypes are optimal and assume that developmental mechanisms have evolved to buffer the phenotypes of specific traits against stochastic and environmental perturbations. However, plastic plant phenotypes that vary between environments or variable phenotypes that vary stochastically within an environment may also be advantageous in some scenarios.

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