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January 2021
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Genetic assimilation and genetic accommodation are mechanisms by which novel phenotypes are produced and become established in a population. Novel characters may be fixed and canalized so they are insensitive to environmental variation, or can be plastic a ...
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June 10, 2020
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September 20, 2018
Many behaviors of insects are stimulated, modified, or modulated by hormones. The principal hormones involved are the same as the ones that control moulting, metamorphosis, and other aspects of development, principally ecdysone and juvenile hormone. In ...
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January 1, 2018
An early insight into the mechanisms responsible for order in some biological structures came from the work of D’Arcy Thompson, 31 who offered the first organized attempts to explain the growth and form of biological structures in terms of physi ...
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August 29, 2017
The border ocelli and adjacent parafocal elements are among the most diverse and finely detailed features of butterfly wing patterns. The border ocelli can be circular, elliptical, and heart-shaped or can develop as dots, arcs, or short lines. Parafocal el ...
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January 1, 2017
Genic selectionists (Williams 1966; Dawkins 1976) defend the view that genes are the (unique) units of selection and that all evolutionary events can be adequately represented at the genic level. Pluralistic genic selectionists (Dawkins 1982; Sterelny and ...
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January 1, 2015
Our understanding of the development and evolution of phenotypic plasticity has evolved in the 30 years since the first Dahlem conference on development and evolution. The focus of this review is on the developmental mechanisms that produce alternative and ...
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