Meghan M Fawcett, Mary C Parks, Alice E Tibbetts, Jane S Swart, Elizabeth M Richards, Juan Camilo Vanegas, Meredith Cenzer, Laura Crowley, William R Simmons, Wenzhen Stacey Hou, David R Angelini
Plasticity, the capacity of an organism to respond to its environment, is thought to evolve through changes in development altering the integration of environmental cues. In polyphenism, a discontinuous plastic response produces two or more phenotypic morphs. Here we describe evolutionary change in wing polyphenism and its underlying developmental regulation in natural populations of the red-shouldered soapberry bug, Jadera haematoloma (Insecta: Hemiptera: Rhopalidae) that have adapted to a novel host plant...
April 27, 2018: Nature Communications