...Jeanne Brülhart; Anja Süß; Jan Oettler; Jürgen Heinze; Eva Schultner ABSTRACT Juvenile hormone is considered to be a master regulator of polyphenism in social insects. In the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior , whether a female egg develops into a queen or a worker is determined maternally and caste...

... to the next generations. Caenorhabditis elegans dauer Developmental plasticity Nutrient availability Starvation Phenotypic plasticity Polyphenism Transgenerational inheritance European Research Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010663 PlastiCell #648960 Institut...

... population density, show distinctly different behavioural characteristics. The proximate mechanisms of behavioural phase polyphenism have been well studied in the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria and the migratory locust Locusta migratoria , and what is known in these species is often treated as a general...

...Kelsey L. Jones; Rahmatollah Rajabzadeh; Guncha Ishangulyyeva; Nadir Erbilgin; Maya L. Evenden ABSTRACT Flight polyphenisms naturally occur as discrete or continuous traits in insects. Discrete flight polyphenisms include winged and wingless morphs, whereas continuous flight polyphenisms can take...

...Sami M. Kivelä; Karl Gotthard; Philipp Lehmann ABSTRACT The evolution of seasonal polyphenisms (discrete phenotypes in different annual generations) associated with alternative developmental pathways of diapause (overwintering) and direct development is favoured in temperate insects. Seasonal life...

... and evolution. Body size Evolutionary developmental biology Formicidae Intercaste Phenotypic plasticity Polyphenism Many insect species, such as locusts and dung beetles, display morphological polyphenisms ( Simpson et al., 2011 ; Hartfelder and Emlen, 2012 ). Perhaps the most elaborate...

... polyphenism, where one genotype gives rise to more than one phenotype, is exploited by many of its species. In social insects, for instance, larval diet influences the development into distinct castes; and locust polyphenism has tricked researchers for years into believing that the drastically different...

... ). Perceptions of epigenetics . Nature 447 , 396 - 398 . Bonasio R. ( 2012 ). Emerging topics in epigenetics: ants, brains, and noncoding RNAs . Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1260 , 14 - 23 . Bonasio R. ( 2014 ). The role of chromatin and epigenetics in the polyphenisms of ant castes...

...Michael E. Scharf; Caitlin E. Buckspan; Traci L. Grzymala; Xuguo Zhou SUMMARY Polyphenism is a key strategy used by solitary insects to adapt to changing environmental conditions and by eusocial insects for existing collaboratively in a social environment. In social insects, the morphogenetic...