Phenotypic plasticity, both within and across generations, is an important mechanism that
organisms use to cope with rapid climate change. While an increasing number of studies …

Phenotypic plasticity, if adaptive, may allow species to counter the detrimental effects of
extreme conditions, but the infrequent occurrence of extreme environments and/or their …

Trade-offs and constraints are inherent to life, and studies of these phenomena play a
central role in both organismal and evolutionary biology. Trade-offs can be defined …

Here, we examined the multigenerational effect of microplastics (6-μm polystyrene beads;
with different environmentally relevant concentrations of 0.023 and 0.23 mg/L in seawater) …

Rapid environmental change is predicted to compromise population survival, and the
resulting strong selective pressure can erode genetic variation, making evolutionary rescue …

Highlights•Examples of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of brain related
phenotypes.•Overview of putative molecular carriers of non-genetic information are …

Almost all animal species are engaged in predator-prey interactions. These interactions,
variable in time and space, favor the emergence and evolution of phenotypic plasticity …

All organisms live in temporally fluctuating environments. Theory predicts that the evolution
of deterministic maternal effects (ie, anticipatory maternal effects or transgenerational …

Recent insights in evolutionary biology have shed light on epigenetic variation that interacts
with genetic variation to convey heritable information. An important characteristic of …

Research addressing the role of epigenetics in a diversity of experimental and natural
systems is rapidly accumulating. Diverse methods have been developed to study epigenetic …