If the large-scale evolution of life on Water and Earth are a good indication, then gravity seems to be related to an increase in phenotypic diversification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Predator Revealed!] Reference

This may make it possible for 23andMe to tap long-term phenotypic change, such as the progression of symptoms in patients suffering from diseases such as Parkinson's.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

A gene product that normally contributes to this robustness is termed a phenotypic capacitor.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

But there is a more subtle form of adaptation called phenotypic plasticity which is used to describe how animals use the genes they have to change their behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

R. conorii also displayed another hallmark feature of pathogens interacting with host cells, namely the phenotypic changes in the composition of several membrane proteins.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The scientists think the technique may be useful in showing the ability of organs to show extreme anatomical adaptations, known as phenotypic flexibility, in other species.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The result is a technological kind of phenotypic plasticity-a phenomenon that, as far as I know, no theorist of technology has yet theorized about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethical Technology] Reference

Thus phenotypic homology need not lead to idealism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

If phenotypic homology inevitably led to idealism, then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

At least NOT via random phenotypic genetic variation ONLY.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Inheritance of phenotypic traits in tef: I - lemma color, II.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 28] Reference

Plant biomass was being used as a phenotypic trait of the ecosystem.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XIV: Group Selection in the Laboratory] Reference

Genotypic and phenotypic correlation studies in yam bean (Pachyrrhizus erosus).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 38] Reference

We screened as many different phenotypic traits as could be efficiently scored.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes] Reference

This means that the degree of saturation varies among different phenotypic classes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes] Reference

A nonevolutionary sense of phenotypic homology was widely utilized prior to Darwin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

These restructurings can give rise to a wide range of altered phenotypic expressions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge] Reference

There are wide differences between individual trees in terms of phenotypic characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 1] Reference

And that phenotypic homology suffers from the arbitrariness which the evolutionist hoped to avoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

A similar phenomenon can occur at the phenotypic level through a genetic property known as pleiotropy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution] Reference

There is considerable phenotypic variation between individuals in crown shape, growth rate, and branching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

Pleiotropy is when a single gene (or gene complex) influences the expression of multiple phenotypic traits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution] Reference

Both the phenotypic variation and heritability required for natural selection to occur have a genetic basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural selection] Reference

Because the traits of organisms overlap in complex ways, phenotypic clusters can be made discrete only somewhat arbitrarily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

These altered traits in the presence of predators are referred to as “inducible defenses” or “phenotypic plasticity.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top-down control] Reference

Subsequent phenotypic and genetic analysis, followed by the molecular cloning of the genes, frequently supported this notion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes] Reference

First, the circularity ascribed to the evolutionary sense of homology also applies to the purely phenotypic sense of homology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Patterns of phenotypic diversity in an Ethiopian barley collection, and the Arsi-Bale Highland as a centre of Origin of barley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 28] Reference

Pleiotropy is fairly common and results in phenotypic traits being correlated with each other through common genetic mechanisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution] Reference

How does development evolve on a short time scale, within and between closely related species, to generate phenotypic variation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molecular Biology Trumps Darwin] Reference

According to their predominant phenotypic traits, the genes can be classified in a large number of groups with similar phenotypes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes] Reference

If this occurred, natural selection should cease because of the lack of a genetic basis for phenotypic variation within a population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural selection] Reference

Alpine regions are typified by a specialized fauna of great zoogeographic interest, with high endemicity and local phenotypic variation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia] Reference

In the place of this idealist, purely phenotypic concept of homology, Lankester proposed a definition resting in part on common ancestry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The pheneticists argue that the traditional evolutionist has poorly defined criteria for asserting the phenotypic similarity of organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference