Adjusting phenotypes via within- and across-generational plasticity.

摘要: Contents 343 I. II. III. 347 IV. 348 References SUMMARY: There is renewed interest in how transgenerational environmental effects, including epigenetic inheritance, contribute to adaptive evolution. The contribution of across-generation plasticity adaptation, however, needs be evaluated within the context within-generation plasticity, which often proposed more efficiently adaptation because potentially greater accuracy progeny than parental cues predict selective environments. We highlight recent empirical studies and find that they do not consistently support predictions based on higher predictive ability cues. discuss these findings relative maternal cues, costs constraints generations, dynamic nature value within- varies with process itself. Such contingent dynamically variable selection could account for diversity patterns observed nature, can influence persistence effects across generations.