Phenotypic Plasticity

Recent Papers

Testosterone Modulates Status-Specific Patterns of Cooperation in a Social Network

T. Brandt Ryder, Roslyn Dakin, Ben J. Vernasco, Brian S. Evans, Brent M. Horton, and Ignacio T. Moore

Blurb: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Ryder.html

Meta-analysis Shows That Rapid Phenotypic Change in Angiosperms in Response to Environmental Change Is Followed by Stasis

Lucas D. Gorné and Sandra Díaz

(In)exhaustible Suppliers for Evolution? Epistatic Selection Tunes the Adaptive Potential of Nongenetic Inheritance

Etienne Rajon and Sylvain Charlat

Plastic Senescence in the Honey Bee and the Disposable Soma Theory

Jack da Silva

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-da-Silva.html

Antagonistic Responses of Exposure to Sublethal Temperatures: Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity Coincides with a Reduction in Organismal Performance

Anthony L. Gilbert and Donald B. Miles

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Gilbert.html

Phenotypic Plasticity and Local Adaptation in a Wild Hibernator Evaluated through Reciprocal Translocation

Jeffrey E. Lane, Zenon J. Czenze, Rachel Findlay-Robinson, and Erin Bayne

Open Access

Species’ Range Dynamics Affect the Evolution of Spatial Variation in Plasticity under Environmental Change

Max Schmid, Ramon Dallo, and Frédéric Guillaume

Grow Where You Thrive, or Where Only You Can Survive? An Analysis of Performance Curve Evolution in a Clade with Diverse Habitat Affinities

Silas B. Tittes, Joseph F. Walker, Lorena Torres-Martínez, and Nancy C. Emery

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprTittes.html

Open Access
Ecological Genetic Conflict: Genetic Architecture Can Shift the Balance between Local Adaptation and Plasticity
Olof Leimar, Sasha R. X. Dall, John M. McNamara, Bram Kuijper, and Peter Hammerstein
Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JanLeimar.html

Open Access

Transgenerational and Within-Generation Plasticity in Response to Climate Change: Insights from a Manipulative Field Experiment across an Elevational Gradient

Susana M. Wadgymar, Rachel M. Mactavish, and Jill T. Anderson

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/DecWadgymar.html

Open Access

A Genomic Imprinting Model of Termite Caste Determination: Not Genetic but Epigenetic Inheritance Influences Offspring Caste Fate

Kenji Matsuura, Nobuaki Mizumoto, Kazuya Kobayashi, Tomonari Nozaki, Tadahide Fujita, Toshihisa Yashiro, Taro Fuchikawa, Yuki Mitaka, and Edward L. Vargo

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneMatsuura.html

Oxygen Limitation at the Larval Stage and the Evolution of Maternal Investment per Offspring in Aquatic Environments

Njal Rollinson and Locke Rowe

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayRollinson.html

Open Access

Maternal Effects in a Wild Songbird Are Environmentally Plastic but Only Marginally Alter the Rate of Adaptation

Jip J. C. Ramakers, Marleen M. P. Cobben, Piter Bijma, Thomas E. Reed, Marcel E. Visser, and Phillip Gienapp

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MayRamakers.html

Neglected Patterns of Variation in Phenotypic Plasticity: Age- and Sex-Specific Antipredator Plasticity in a Cichlid Fish

Denis Meuthen, Sebastian A. Baldauf, Theo C. M. Bakker, and Timo Thünken

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprMeuthen.html

Temperature-Dependent Growth and Fission Rate Plasticity Drive Seasonal and Geographic Changes in Body Size in a Clonal Sea Anemone

Will H. Ryan

Summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/FebRyan.html