Sentence examples for plastic trait from inspiring English sources

Another pervasive interaction involves plasticity and genetic adaptation; plasticity can be adaptive if plastic trait variation increases individual fitness (Nicotra et al. 2010), or it can be maladaptive if plasticity decreases fitness (Ghalambor et al. 2007).

Root architecture is a highly plastic trait, and varies among species, and its plasticity is strongly controlled by plant regulators and inherent genetic factors.

Tolerance to cold storage is a very plastic trait influenced by a wide range of endogenous (biotic) and exogenous (abiotic) factors experienced before, during, or after cold exposure.

Key to that process is Rosin's openness to changing her view, another "plastic" trait that helps one overcome gender shock.

I hope it is obvious that Horgan has merely demonstrated that war is sensitive to context, just like any other phenotypically plastic trait.

Additionally, polygynous colony structure is a highly plastic trait across habitat, clade, and haplotype.

Behavioural plasticity, like other plastic traits, can evolve through genetic assimilation or accommodation.

To know the macroevolutionary potential of developmental plasticity, objectively measured plastic traits must be compared by deep taxon sampling in a robust phylogenetic framework.

However, not all plasticity is adaptive and elucidating potentially adaptive benefits of phenotypically plastic traits requires an understanding of how plasticity differs among genotypes and how it is expressed in diverse environments.

In addition, phenotypic plasticity is predicted to facilitate evolution and affect phenotypic outcomes because plastic traits should express greater mutational variance, have higher standing genetic variation, and be more evolvable (Draghi and Whitlock 2012).

Rarely is the evolution of behavioural phenotypes explored in the larger context of the evolution of phenotypically plastic traits.