Digest: On the contribution of phenotypic plasticity to adaptation in desert environments.
Vikram P NarayanPublished in: Evolution; international journal of organic evolution (2021)
How do organisms adapt to new environments, and what role does phenotypic plasticity play? Bittner et al. compared water consumption in laboratory-reared house mice derived from xeric and mesic populations and found evidence for adaptive phenotypic plasticity as well as genetic differences between populations.