Newly published research from UNC Greensboro biology professor Dr. Bryan McLean and colleagues shows that the masked shrew, a ...

Phenotypic Plasticity ... for example in flies, fish, or birds, life history biologists have provided us with some compelling answers to fundamental questions such as: How fast should an organism ...

Imagine an organism capable ... change from time to time. As an example of dramatic change, plants often flower according to a mechanism of discrete phenotypic plasticity, in which they sense ...

Phenotypic plasticity offers a solution to the crucial puzzle of how organisms adapt to environmental challenges, intentionally or not. And there is no more astonishing example of inborn ...