Thermal plasticity in insects' response to climate change and to multifactorial environments

YK Rodrigues, P Beldade - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Phenotypic plasticity, the property by which living organisms express different phenotypes
depending on environmental conditions, can impact their response to environmental …

Evolution and molecular mechanisms of adaptive developmental plasticity

P Beldade, ARA Mateus, RA Keller - Molecular ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aside from its selective role in filtering inter‐individual variation during evolution by natural
selection, the environment also plays an instructive role in producing variation during …

Strong phenotypic plasticity limits potential for evolutionary responses to climate change

V Oostra, M Saastamoinen, BJ Zwaan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Phenotypic plasticity, the expression of multiple phenotypes from one genome, is a
widespread adaptation to short-term environmental fluctuations, but whether it facilitates …

Genomics of developmental plasticity in animals

E Lafuente, P Beldade - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Developmental plasticity refers to the property by which the same genotype produces
distinct phenotypes depending on the environmental conditions under which development …

Alternative splicing in seasonal plasticity and the potential for adaptation to environmental change

RA Steward, MA de Jong, V Oostra… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Seasonal plasticity is accomplished via tightly regulated developmental cascades that
translate environmental cues into trait changes. Little is known about how alternative …

The draft genome of blunt snout bream (Megalobrama amblycephala) reveals the development of intermuscular bone and adaptation to herbivorous diet

H Liu, C Chen, Z Gao, J Min, Y Gu, J Jian, X Jiang… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The blunt snout bream Megalobrama amblycephala is the economically most important
cyprinid fish species. As an herbivore, it can be grown by eco-friendly and resource …

Acquired preferences for a novel food odor do not become stronger or stable after multiple generations of odor feeding in Bicyclus anynana butterfly larvae

V Gowri, A Monteiro - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Many herbivorous insects have specific host–plant preferences, and it is unclear how these
preferences evolved. Previously, we found that Bicyclus anynana larvae can learn to prefer …

Predictive Adaptive Responses: Condition‐Dependent Impact of Adult Nutrition and Flight in the Tropical Butterfly Bicyclus anynana

M Saastamoinen, D Van der Sterren… - The American …, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
The experience of environmental stress during development can substantially affect an
organism's life history. These effects are often mainly negative, but a growing number of …

The scent chemistry of butterflies

S Ehlers, S Schulz - Natural Product Reports, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1990 up to 2022 Contrary to popular opinion, butterflies exhibit a rich chemistry
and elaborate use of volatile compounds, especially for sexual communication, but also for …

A high-coverage draft genome of the mycalesine butterfly Bicyclus anynana

RW Nowell, B Elsworth, V Oostra, BJ Zwaan… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The mycalesine butterfly Bicyclus anynana, the “Squinting bush brown,” is a model organism
in the study of lepidopteran ecology, development, and evolution. Here, we present a draft …