The right tools for the job: Regulating polyphenic morph development in insects.
The right tools for the job: Regulating polyphenic morph development in insects.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cois.2015.09.011
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发表时间：
2016-02-01
影响因子：
5.3
通讯作者：
Davis GK
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作者：
Brisson JA;Davis GK
多型现象是发育可塑性的一种形式，其中生物体通过产生适应性的、离散的、替代的表型（称为变形）来响应环境线索。这种现象既是一种适应形式，又是自然选择变异的来源，是常见且重要的。了解多型现象的进化需要了解调节替代形态产生的直接因素。新的兴趣和技术进步推动了后者的多种方法，包括激素操纵研究、靶向转录组研究和表观遗传分析。我们回顾了这些研究，并建议多层方法的整合对于理解调节替代形态所涉及的复杂机制是必要的。
Polyphenism is a form of developmental plasticity in which organisms respond to environmental cues by producing adaptive, discrete, alternative phenotypes known as morphs. The phenomenon is common and important as both a form of adaptation and a source of variation for natural selection. Understanding the evolution of polyphenism will require understanding the proximate factors that regulate alternative morph production. Renewed interest and technological advances have fueled multiple approaches to the latter, including hormone manipulation studies, targeted transcriptomic studies, and epigenetic profiling. We review these studies and suggest that integration of multilayered approaches will be necessary to understand the complex mechanisms involved in regulating alternative morphologies.