%0 Journal Article
%T Developmental mechanisms underlying variable, invariant and plastic phenotypes
%A H. M. Ottoline Leyser
%A James C. W. Locke
%A Katie Abley
%J Archive of "Annals of Botany".
%D 2016
%R 10.1093/aob/mcw016
%X Background Discussions of phenotypic robustness often consider scenarios where invariant phenotypes are optimal and assume that developmental mechanisms have evolved to buffer the phenotypes of specific traits against stochastic and environmental perturbations. However, plastic plant phenotypes that vary between environments or variable phenotypes that vary stochastically within an environment may also be advantageous in some scenarios
%K Noise
%K stochasticity
%K canalization
%K plasticity
%K instability
%K variability
%K robustness.
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4845803/