While a trend in the direction predicted by selection does not allow us to tease apart evolution from plasticity, the plastic nature of a change is apparent if the change occurs in the opposite direction of what is predicted by the direction of selection.
However, whether these local neural structures would be of plastic nature, and how such plasticity might participate in specific metabolic events of WAT, remains largely uncharacterized.
Due to non plastic nature, plastic limit and the plasticity index values could not be determined.
By affirming the plasticity of nature ("everyone can be anyone"), a Marxist could hope to eradicate such innate distinctions and achieve a radical collective good.
The Jiangsu soft clay is a lightly overconsolidated and sensitive clay of high plasticity in nature.
This peculiar plasticity of nature in neoliberal thinking and new technologies discourse has been explored in the recent literature (Pellizzoni 2012, 2015).
Recent findings have shown that mesothelial cells can undergo an epithelial to mesenchymal transition, and transform into myofibroblasts and possibly smooth muscle cells, suggesting plasticity in nature.
The well-known relationship between temperature and body size, known as the temperature-size rule, provides a useful framework for examining phenotypic plasticity in nature [ 12- 15].
Several papers in the present special issue discuss the virtues of measuring individual plasticity in nature (e.g., Boutin and Lane 2014; Charmantier and Gienapp 2014).
As clonal mammals do not exist naturally, this requires the monitoring of individual phenotypes in different environments (e.g. across >1 year, termed individual plasticity in nature by Merilä and Hendry (2014).
