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Developmental Plasticity

Developmental Plasticity is the capacity of an organism's developmental processes to produce distinct phenotypic outcomes in response to environmental variations during ontogeny, distinguishing it from fixed developmental trajectories within the broader category of developmental mechanisms.

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Toward an experimental ecology of human development.

Urie Bronfenbrenner · American Psychologist · 1977 · 10.2K citations

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The ecology of developmental processes.

Urie Bronfenbrenner, Pamela Morris · 1998 · 2.8K citations

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Costs and limits of phenotypic plasticity

Thomas J. DeWitt, Andrew Sih, David Sloan Wilson · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1998 · 2.3K citations

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Developmental plasticity and human health

Patrick Bateson, David J.P. Barker, Timothy H. Clutton-Brock et al. · Nature · 2004 · 1.7K citations

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The Evolutionary Significance of Phenotypic Plasticity

Stephen C. Stearns · BioScience · 1989 · 1.3K citations

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Authors

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  1. AL
    Anssi Laurila

    Uppsala University, Sweden

    17 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. JM
    Juha Merilä

    University of Helsinki, Finland

    15 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. SM
    Samuel M. Scheiner

    U.S. National Science Foundation, United States

    13 publications · 1.1K citations

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  4. RJ
    Ralf J. Sommer

    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany

    12 publications · 650 citations

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  5. RA
    Rick A. Relyea

    University of Pittsburgh, United States

    12 publications · 2.5K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    34 h-index

    160 publications

    10K citations

  2. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    21 h-index

    32 publications

    2.9K citations

  3. Indiana University Bloomington

    Bloomington, United States

    21 h-index

    60 publications

    3.1K citations

  4. Uppsala University

    Uppsala, Sweden

    20 h-index

    53 publications

    3.5K citations

  5. University of Helsinki

    Helsinki, Finland

    19 h-index

    53 publications

    3.2K citations

  6. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    17 h-index

    35 publications

    2.4K citations

  7. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    17 h-index

    37 publications

    8.7K citations

  8. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    16 h-index

    29 publications

    1.7K citations

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  1. Evolution

    88 publications · 8K citations

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  2. Journal of Evolutionary Biology

    JEB · 72 publications · 4.9K citations

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  3. Ecology

    36 publications · 4.8K citations

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  4. The American Naturalist

    AN · 38 publications · 4.5K citations

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  5. Oecologia

    38 publications · 2.1K citations

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