Chapter 25 Outline

Chapter 25: Development and the Environment: Biotic, Abiotic, and Symbiotic Regulation of Development

Developmental Plasticity: The Environment as an Agent in Producing Normal Phenotypes

• Diet-induced polyphenisms
• Diet, DNA and methylation
• Predator-induced polyphenisms
• Temperature as a developmental agent
• Temperature and sexual phenotype
• Reaction norms in plants
• Larval settlement
• Stress as an agent: The hard life of spadefoot toads

Developmental Symbioses: Holobionts

• Developmental symbioses in plants
• Mechanisms of developmental symbiosis: Getting the partners together
• The Euprymna-Vibrio symbiosis
• Developmental symbiosis in mammals and other vertebrates
• Transgenerational microbial effects via transplacental blood flow
• Larval settlement

Global climate change and development

• Turtles and coral reef
• Phenology

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