Developmental plasticity refers to changes in neural connections during growth, influenced by environmental interactions and learning. Similar to brain...
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Heterosynaptic plasticity is a subtype of synaptic plasticity, referring to a chemical synapse's ability to undergo changes in strength, or efficacy of...
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development will affect developmental resource allocation leading to phenotypic variation, also referred to as developmental plasticity. As in all insects...
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Neuroplasticity (redirect from Cortical plasticity)
Neuroplasticity, also known as neural plasticity or just plasticity, is the ability of neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization...
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Phenotypic plasticity refers to some of the changes in an organism's behavior, morphology and physiology in response to a unique environment. Fundamental...
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result of developmental plasticity, the result of symbiotic relationships or epigenetically inherited. The overlap between developmental plasticity and symbioses...
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developmental or "innate" behavioral plasticity. This form of plasticity is generally thought to require new neuronal pathways to form. Developmental...
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Spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) is a biological process that adjusts the strength of synaptic connections between neurons based on the relative...
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result only exhibit developmental plasticity at the larval stage, the mobile adultoid instars of termites remain developmentally flexible throughout all...
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can favor the emergence of individual differences via "adaptive developmental plasticity." From this perspective, human development follows alternative...
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Homeostatic plasticity refers to the capacity of neurons to regulate their own excitability relative to network activity. The term homeostatic plasticity derives...
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Mary Jane West-Eberhard (section Phenotypic plasticity)
American theoretical biologist noted for arguing that phenotypic and developmental plasticity played a key role in shaping animal evolution and speciation. She...
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C. G.; Ledón-Rettig, C. (2015). "Eco-Evo-Devo: developmental symbiosis and developmental plasticity as evolutionary agents". Nature Reviews Genetics...
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These studies in turn led to greater interest in the roles of developmental plasticity and early life environmental exposures in adult disease. The World...
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Developmental coordination disorder (DCD), also known as developmental motor coordination disorder, developmental dyspraxia, or simply dyspraxia (from...
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effects, niche construction and developmental plasticity, which all are influenced by the brain. While developmental plasticity demonstrates an adaptation...
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feeding. Unusually for a dinosaur, Plateosaurus showed strong developmental plasticity: instead of having a fairly uniform adult size, fully grown individuals...
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can favor the emergence of individual differences via "adaptive developmental plasticity". From this perspective, human development follows alternative...
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the University of California, San Francisco where she worked on developmental plasticity in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Following her Ph.D., she...
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increased cold or heat tolerance as adults, respectively (See Developmental plasticity). The salt content of sweat and urine decreases as people acclimatize...
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(2015). "Life history and development-a framework for understanding developmental plasticity in lower termites". Development Genes and Evolution. Korb, J.;...
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epigenetic inheritance. The way that organismal development and developmental plasticity channel evolutionary pathways and generates phenotypic novelty...
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heritable variations that may underlie some of the mechanics in developmental plasticity and canalization. Recent findings have confirmed important examples...
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adaptive response (PAR) is a developmental trajectory taken by an organism during a period of developmental plasticity in response to perceived environmental...
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Zhan, Shuai (2018). "The genomic and functional landscapes of developmental plasticity in the American cockroach". Nature Communications. 9 (1): 1008...
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(2016). "Morphological variation in Homo erectus and the origins of developmental plasticity". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 371 (1698):...
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heritable variations that may underlay some of the mechanics in developmental plasticity and canalisation. Heritability may also occur at even larger scales...
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expression. From the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology, understanding the redeployment and plasticity of existing regulatory mechanisms in butterfly...
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Reuther, Kerstin; Claßen-Bockhoff, Regine (2013). "Andromonoecy and developmental plasticity in Chaerophyllum bulbosum (Apiaceae–Apioideae)". Annals of Botany...
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426. ISBN 978-0-87893-494-2. West-Eberhard, Mary Jane (2003). Developmental Plasticity and Evolution. Oxford University Press. pp. 353–376. ISBN 978-0-19-512235-0...
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