Living organisms are constantly exposed to wide ranges of environmental cues. They react
to these cues by undergoing a battery of phenotypic responses, such as by altering their …

Organisms can change their physiological/behavioural traits to adapt and survive in
changed environments. However, whether these acquired traits can be inherited across …

Phenotypic polymorphism is a consequence of developmental plasticity, in which the
trajectories of developing organisms diverge under the influence of cues. Environmental and …

The dualism of genetic predisposition and environmental influences, their interactions, and
respective roles in shaping the phenotype have been a hot topic in biological sciences for …

Epigenetic modifications are widely accepted as playing a critical role in the regulation of
gene expression and thereby contributing to the determination of the phenotype of …

Because environmental conditions influence gene expression as well as metabolic
processes, an organism's development is not scripted in its DNA but takes shape through …

The past decade has seen an explosion of articles in scientific journals involving non-
genetic influences on phenotype through modulation of gene function without changes in …

Trait variation is normally separated into genetic and environmental components, yet genetic
factors also control the expression of environmental variation, encompassing plasticity …

Publisher Summary Environmentally influenced variation in phenotypic expression or
phenotypic plasticity is a fundamental property of organisms with consequences for …

Epigenetic inheritance is a phenomenon whereby stochastic or signal-induced changes to
parental germline epigenome modulate phenotypic output in one or more subsequent …