Abstract

OPINION article Front. Behav. Neurosci., 17 January 2013Sec. Pathological Conditions https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2012.00093

Highlights

  • LIVING ORGANISMS ADJUST THEIR PHENOTYPES ACCORDING TO ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES One thousand nine hundred thirty six: this is the number of citations retrieved in “pubmed” using the search terms: “developmental plasticity rodent.” The “results by year” graphical trend, automatically plotted, indicates that this number has been linearly increasing over the last 30 years

  • Disciplines like psychology and evolutionary ecology devised theoretical and practical tools to understand the link between experiential factors and phenotypic adjustments

  • The concept of resilience should be integrated within this theoretical framework, whereby precocious challenges may forecast an adult environment characterized by the presence of multiple stressors, to which the individual phenotype is tuned

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LIVING ORGANISMS ADJUST THEIR PHENOTYPES ACCORDING TO ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES One thousand nine hundred thirty six: this is the number of citations retrieved in “pubmed” using the search terms: “developmental plasticity rodent.” The “results by year” graphical trend, automatically plotted, indicates that this number has been linearly increasing over the last 30 years. Methodological rigidity neglects developmental plasticity of variation to isolate the biological factors contributing to the individual phenotype, and to obtain reproducible results across different laboratories.

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