Usage of "phenotypic plasticity"

rus

экологическая пластичность

portuguès

plasticidade fenotípica

espanyol

plasticidad fenotipica

català

plasticitat fenotípica

The ability of an organism to change its phenotype in response to the environment.

Termes relacionats

plasticitat fenotípica

Sinònims

Examples for "flexibility"

The plan involves creating greater employment opportunities and more labour market flexibility. 
 The Irish Times 

However,the company has some flexibility to defer capital expenditure separately whendeclining demand. 
 Reuters 

Obama said he believed China's pledge of greater currency flexibility is serious. 
 Reuters 

The healthcare and construction sectors in particular needed more flexibility, he said. 
 Reuters 

The company said the deal allowed Activision to operate with more flexibility. 
 Reuters 

Ús de phenotypic plasticity en anglès

Animals, including humans, can adapt to environmental stress through phenotypic plasticity. 
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These results support the inference that grasshoppers exhibit adaptive phenotypic plasticity. 
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Thus, phenotypic plasticity among resprouters is the general strategy for surviving varying fire regimes. 
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Two such processes are phenotypic plasticity and sexual selection. 
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Learning is an important form of phenotypic plasticity that allows organisms to adjust their behaviour to the environment. 
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Thus, our study provides evidence that tumor cells display phenotypic plasticity that allows them to survive acid stress. 
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Macrophages exhibit phenotypic plasticity, as they have the ability to switch their functional phenotypes during inflammation and recovery. 
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Cells undergoing metastasis use phenotypic plasticity to adapt to their changing environmental conditions and avoid therapy and immune response. 
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There were clear differences in cell morphology under different growth conditions, revealing the high phenotypic plasticity of the strains. 
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The hypomethylated genome of CIS cells may contribute to phenotypic plasticity and invasive capabilities of this testicular cancer precursor. 
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Recent years have witnessed increased interest in evaluating whether phenotypic plasticity can precede, facilitate, and possibly even bias adaptive evolution. 
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This adaptation, called phenotypic plasticity, allows the organism to thrive in the anticipated environment in which the fetus will emerge. 
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Relatively little is known about whether and how nongenetic inheritance interacts with selection to impact the evolution of phenotypic plasticity. 
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In addition, larvae exhibit a striking phenotypic plasticity in thermal-driven behaviors that are established by temperature at which embryonic development occurs. 
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Aphids show a marked phenotypic plasticity, producing asexual or sexual and winged or wingless morphs depending on environmental conditions and season. 
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Hosts can alter their strategy towards pathogens during their lifetime; that is, they can show phenotypic plasticity in immunity or life history. 
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