ReviewTrends in ecology & evolution2020
The Evolution of Variance Control.
Review in Trends in ecology & evolution, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.
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30 citing papers in PubMed.
- Environmental perturbation increases gene expression variability and unmasks genetic regulation for transcriptional robustness.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Intergenerational effects of dietary changes on trait means and variance.Biology letters · 2025Article
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- Structured Demographic Buffering: A Framework to Explore the Environmental Components and Demographic Mechanisms Underlying Demographic Buffering.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Species interactions drive continuous assembly of freshwater communities in stochastic environments.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Environmental memory alters the fitness effects of adaptive mutations in fluctuating environments.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
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- Detecting genetic effects on phenotype variability to capture gene-by-environment interactions: a systematic method comparison.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Review
- Strong environmental memory revealed by experimental evolution in static and fluctuating environments.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- The non-deterministic genotype-phenotype map of RNA secondary structure.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Characterizing the landscape of gene expression variance in humans.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- Embedded racism: Inequitable niche construction as a neglected evolutionary process affecting health.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2023Review
- Larval zebrafish as a model for studying individual variability in translational neuroscience research.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Review
- Adaptive Potential of Epigenetic Switching During Adaptation to Fluctuating Environments.Genome biology and evolution · 2022Article
- Behavioral Neuroscience in the Era of Genomics: Tools and Lessons for Analyzing High-Dimensional Datasets.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Evaluation of the phenotypic and genomic background of variability based on litter size of Large White pigs.Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE · 2022Article
- Natural selection for imprecise vertical transmission in host-microbiota systems.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- A domestic plant differs from its wild relative along multiple axes of within-plant trait variability and diversity.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Molecular genetics of β-thalassemia: A narrative review.Medicine · 2021Review
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Abstract
Genetically identical individuals can be phenotypically variable, even in constant environmental conditions. The ubiquity of this phenomenon, known as 'intra-genotypic variability', is increasingly evident and the relevant mechanistic underpinnings are beginning to be understood. In parallel, theory has delineated a number of formal expectations for contexts in which such a feature would be adaptive. Here, we review empirical evidence across biological systems and theoretical expectations, including nonlinear averaging and bet hedging. We synthesize existing results to illustrate the dependence of selection outcomes both on trait characteristics, features of environmental variability, and species' demographic context. We conclude by discussing ways to bridge the gap between empirical evidence of intra-genotypic variability, studies demonstrating its genetic component, and evidence that it is adaptive.
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