Sentence examples for plastic variations from inspiring English sources

Such plastic variations in environmentally dependent morphological characters had also been documented in reef corals [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15] Coral colonies are made of multiple genetically identical modules (polyps) that are physiologically integrated [16].

Indeed, some mutant mice display phenotypes that may mimic the patterns of plastic variations in wild populations.

The mouse mandible is particularly prone to such plastic variations because bone remodeling occurs late in postnatal ontogeny, in interaction with muscular loading.

Both genetic and plastic variation are pervasive in contributing to species' abilities to evolve local adaptation.

However, the basis and extent of plastic variation that manifests in diverse environments remains elusive.

This plastic variation was within the TBB range reported for F. sylvatica by Vitasse et al.

Both heritable and plastic variation within and between populations was found to be higher for abdominal vertebrae [ 47- 49].

Plastic variation may also allow individuals to survive in the face of new environmental conditions, enabling the evolution of heritable adaptive traits.

For example, plastic variation may allow individuals to survive in new conditions, a prerequisite for the evolution of heritable adaptive traits [ 6, 7].

However, A50 appears to be strongly influenced by plastic variation in maturation due to changes in growth or condition (Grift et al. 2003) and sampling-related biases (Wang et al. 2009b) and thus may have limited power to disentangle adaptive and plastic variation in maturation schedules.

In this study, we focused on genetic variation, but more detailed investigations of the observed plastic variation, potentially also under genetic control (Bradshaw 1965), would advance the understanding of its overall importance to adaptation (Scheiner and Goodnight 1984).