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A new perspective on developmental plasticity and the principles of adaptive morph determination

Leimar, Olof, Hammerstein, Peter, Van Dooren, Tom J. M.·2006·The American Naturalist
DOI 10.1086/499566
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Organisms can have divergent paths of development leading to alternative phenotypes, or morphs. The choice of developmental path may be set by environmental cues, the individual's genotype, or a combination of the two. Using individual-based simulation and analytical investigation, we explore the idea that from the viewpoint of a developmental switch, genetic morph determination can sometimes be regarded as adaptive developmental plasticity. We compare the possibilities for the evolution of environmental and genetic morph determination and combinations of the two in situations with spatial variation in conditions. We find that the accuracy of environmental cues in predicting coming selective conditions is important for environmental morph determination, in accordance with previous results, and that genetic morph determination is favored in a similar way by the accuracy of genetic cues, in the form of selectively maintained gene frequency differences between local populations. Restricted gene flow and strong selection acting on the phenotypic alternatives produce clearer gene frequency differences and lead to greater accuracy of genetic cues. For combined environmental and genetic morph determination, we show that the developmental machinery can evolve toward efficiently combining information in environmental and genetic cues for the purpose of predicting coming selective conditions.

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  • A model by Leimar et al. (2006) indicates that plasticity switches should evolve to integrate genetic and environmental information in phenotypic determination.

    “At the individual level, a model by Leimar and colleagues (2006) indicates that, in a broad range of conditions, plasticity switches should evolve so as to integrate both genetic and environmental information in phenotypic determination.”

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Authors
Leimar, O., Hammerstein, P., & Van Dooren, T. J. M.
Affiliations
  • Stockholm University (SE)
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
ORCID
Venue
The American Naturalist
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
2006-03
Volume
167
Issue
3
Pages
367-376
ISSN
  • 0003-0147 (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-5323
DOI
10.1086/499566
OpenAlex
W2058914051
Cited by
126
References
35
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 11
FWCI
6.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • The American Naturalist (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • Vetenskapsrådet
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Geometry and Topology › Morphological variations and asymmetry
Keywords
developmental plasticity, adaptive development, environmental cues, developmental switching, gene flow, agent-based modeling, phenotypic plasticity
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Biological, Animals, Computer Simulation, Environment, Gene Frequency, Models, Biological, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Genetic, Selection, Genetic, Gene Flow

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