Elvira Lafuente

TL;DR: This work identifies recent advances and important open questions about the genomics of developmental plasticity in animals and gives special attention to studies using transcriptomics to identify genes whose expression changes across developmental environments and studies using genetic mapping to identify loci that contribute to variation in plasticity and can fuel its evolution.

TL;DR: Following a suite of traits evolving by natural or sexual selection, it is found that different groups of cells within the same tissue have sensitivities and patterns of response that are surprisingly distinct for the external environmental cue and for the internal hormonal signal.

TL;DR: This work quantified genetic variation for body size plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster by measuring thorax and abdomen length of females reared at two temperatures and used a Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) approach to unravel the genetic basis of inter-genotype variation in body size Plasticity.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the modulation of Hox RNA processing by ELAV serves to adapt the morphogenesis of the CNS to axial level by regulating Hox expression and consequently activating local programmes of neural differentiation.

TL;DR: This work quantified genetic variation for body size plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster by measuring thorax and abdomen length of females reared at two temperatures from a panel representing naturally segregating alleles, and identified DNA sequence variants associated to variation in thermal plasticity forBody size.