| Literature DB >> 24209614 |
Volker Hartenstein1, David Jacobs.
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Developmental plasticity in response to environmental conditions (polyphenism) plays an important role in evolutionary theory. Analyzing the nematode taxon Pristionchus, Ragsdale et al. demonstrate that a single gene underlies the nematode's ability to develop distinct mouth forms in response to environmental changes.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24209614 PMCID: PMC4045611 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.10.038
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell ISSN: 0092-8674 Impact factor: 41.582