Polar auxin transport dynamics control vein patterning.
Tag - canalization
Rachel Shekar
Trait divergence determines the success of a newly invasive plant
It is often assumed that the ability of plants to acclimatize to the local environment through non-genetic changes in their anatomy and physiology (phenotypic plasticity) is important for the success of invasive species...
Alex Assiry
Auxin transport and stem vascular reconnection – has our thinking become canalized?
The presence of a polar auxin transport stream has long been correlated with the differentiation and patterning of vascular cells across vascular plants. As our understanding of auxin transport and vascular development...
Detecting canalization and intra-floral modularity in triggerplant (Stylidium) flowers
The Berg hypothesis proposes that specialized-flower traits experience stronger stabilizing selection than non-floral structures and predicts that variation in specialized-flower traits will be mostly uncorrelated with...
Floral scent variation in woodland stars
Reproductive traits important to coevolving interactions, such as the floral scent of L. bolanderi, may be more canalized than other traits important for plant fitness.
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Pollinators and corolla shape robustness in Brassicaceae
How pollinators may influence the integration and developmental robustness of angiosperm flowers is still unknown. Using geometric morphometrics, Gómez et al. studied the evolution of the phenotypic variation, disparity...
Molecular mechanisms of noise and robustness
Robustness, the inverse of noise, is a molecularly programmed feature of biological systems. The molecular networks of some organismal phenotypes like development are designed to maximize robustness, while other...
Genetic assimilation and the evolution of novelty
Most, if not all, organisms possess the ability to alter their phenotype in direct response to changes in their environment, a phenomenon known as phenotypic plasticity. Selection can break this environmental...
The developmental genetics of biological robustness
Biological systems face constant perturbations, yet often manage to produce invariable developmental phenotypes. Developmental robustness is a property observed across phyla and recent work in yeast, animals and plants...
