"This 'lock-in' would slow down the introduction of climate-friendly technologies and narrow the developmental choices that would place the global community on the path to a sustainable, green future," he said.
Secondly, that the proportion of female larvae that develop indirectly into free-living females is favoured, i.e. the female-only developmental choice becomes more biased towards the development of adult free-living females [ 5].
The temperature, external to the host, at which larvae develop also affects the female-only developmental choice, with indirect development of female larvae favoured at greater temperatures.
This trait is therefore different from the dauer larva developmental choice, in which a developmental decision is made based primarily on the multi-factor perceived environmental conditions.
The switch between these pathways represents a facultative developmental choice driven by environmental conditions, such as food availability, population density and temperature (Lee, 2002; Hu, 2007; Brown et al., 2011; Sommer and Ogawa, 2011).
Most neurons in vertebrates make a developmental choice between two principal neurotransmitter phenotypes (glutamatergic versus GABAergic).
The control of the developmental fates of the larvae of the free-living generation occurs by the action of a male/female genetic sex determination event [ 4] and a subsequent female-only developmental choice.
