Adaptive versus non-adaptive phenotypic plasticity and the potential for contemporary adaptation in new environments

Heritability and adaptive phenotypic pla

Heritability and adaptive phenotypic plasticity of adult body size in the mosquito Aedes aegypti with implications for dengue vector competence

✍ Jennifer R. Schneider; Dave D. Chadee; Akio Mori; Jeanne Romero-Severson; David 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 233 KB

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity is particularly important to organisms with developmental cycles that undergo ontogenetic niche shifts that differentially subject individual life stages to heterogeneous and often stressful environmental conditions. The yellow fever and dengue fever vector mosquito, A