For unknown reasons, genetically identical animals often differ substantially in their phenotypic traits, even in a controlled environment. Here I investigate the causes of inter-individual physiological variation using a model organism, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Isogenic nematodes vary in their size at hatching, speed of development, growth rate, starvation resistance and fecundity. I show that much of this variation is due to the age of an individual’s mother, with young mothers producing progeny impaired for many traits. The underlying molecular mechanism for multiple traits is a progressive, age-dependent increase in the maternal provisioning of a lipoprotein complex, yolk/vitellogenin, to embryos. The production of sub-optim...
Vitellogenins are a family of yolk proteins that are by far the most abundant among oviparous animal...
How do the same mechanisms that faithfully regenerate complex developmental programmes in spite of e...
International audienceUnderstanding how the environment impacts development is of central interest i...
For unknown reasons, genetically identical animals often differ substantially in their phenotypic tr...
Phenotypic plasticity and genotype-environment interactions (GEI) play an important role in the evol...
Genetically identical cells and organisms growing in homogenous environmental conditions can show si...
Phenotypic plasticity and genotype-environment interactions (GEI) play an important role in the evol...
Genetically identical cells and organisms growing in homogenous environmental conditions can show si...
Genetic approaches (e.g. mutation, RNA interference) in model organisms, particularly the nematode C...
Developmental robustness is the ability of an embryo to develop normally despite many sources of var...
Developmental robustness is the ability of an embryo to develop normally despite many sources of var...
<div><p></p><p>Genetic approaches (<i>e.g.</i> mutation, RNA interference) in model organisms, parti...
The biological causes of aging are still largely uncertain. However, clearly genetic factors play an...
Phenotypic plasticity refers to the ability of an organism to adopt different phenotypes depending o...
Vitellogenins are a family of yolk proteins that are by far the most abundant among oviparous animal...
Vitellogenins are a family of yolk proteins that are by far the most abundant among oviparous animal...
How do the same mechanisms that faithfully regenerate complex developmental programmes in spite of e...
International audienceUnderstanding how the environment impacts development is of central interest i...
For unknown reasons, genetically identical animals often differ substantially in their phenotypic tr...
Phenotypic plasticity and genotype-environment interactions (GEI) play an important role in the evol...
Genetically identical cells and organisms growing in homogenous environmental conditions can show si...
Phenotypic plasticity and genotype-environment interactions (GEI) play an important role in the evol...
Genetically identical cells and organisms growing in homogenous environmental conditions can show si...
Genetic approaches (e.g. mutation, RNA interference) in model organisms, particularly the nematode C...
Developmental robustness is the ability of an embryo to develop normally despite many sources of var...
Developmental robustness is the ability of an embryo to develop normally despite many sources of var...
<div><p></p><p>Genetic approaches (<i>e.g.</i> mutation, RNA interference) in model organisms, parti...
The biological causes of aging are still largely uncertain. However, clearly genetic factors play an...
Phenotypic plasticity refers to the ability of an organism to adopt different phenotypes depending o...
Vitellogenins are a family of yolk proteins that are by far the most abundant among oviparous animal...
Vitellogenins are a family of yolk proteins that are by far the most abundant among oviparous animal...
How do the same mechanisms that faithfully regenerate complex developmental programmes in spite of e...
International audienceUnderstanding how the environment impacts development is of central interest i...