Sentences with phrase «via phenotypic plasticity»

The majority of these studies report short - term (days, weeks or a few months, see [10]-RRB- «shock» responses that do not incorporate the longer - term potential for species gradual acclimatization (i.e. respond via phenotypic plasticity, see [11]-RRB- or adaptation (the selection of extant genetic variation that moves the average phenotype of a population towards the fitness peak).