This capacity sets the stage for proof-of-concept tests designed to deliberately shape the developmental trajectory and configurations of microbiota in children representing different geographies, cultural traditions, and states of health.
Worker-brood epistasis involves a special type of social interaction, though, because the social partners are at different life history stages, and these interactions, like parent-offspring interactions [14], [15], [19], shape the developmental trajectory of brood.
More importantly, the underlying mechanism that can shape the developmental process in the hourglass or funnel forms is still unknown.
These different phenotypic orientations may result from early deleterious or positive life events, which will shape the developmental trajectory of the subjects within a genetic envelope.
As well as environmental adversities, within-subject factors are likely to shape the developmental paths and the overall liabilities for increases in depressive symptoms over adolescence.
As the paradigm matures and additional related CRMs from the growing number of sequenced insect genomes become identified, we will be able to trace the evolutionary history of these diverged regulatory networks and determine the various direct and convergent evolutionary influences that shaped the developmental genetics of the vast insect radiation.
Intrauterine environment, nutritional deficiency in infancy, infectious diseases and poverty, all shape the developmental trajectory of a child in a LMIC.
Leaf differentiation is controlled by a genetic program, but to allow for plasticity in leaf shape, the developmental program is modified by environmental factors [ 2].
Based on these results and those of previous QTL studies, we propose a model in which the degree of shoot vegetative development shapes the developmental context for reproduction and subsequent vegetative growth in different environments.
