FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Sept. 14 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news release:
The Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center (AIMRC) will host Dr. Nick Levis, an assistant professor of evolutionary biology at the U of A, at 11:50 a.m. Wednesday, Sept.16, in BELL 2269. Levis studies how environmental conditions influence development and drive evolutionary changes. In this seminar, he will highlight research on diet-dependent plasticity in nematodes and spadefoot toads, revealing how environmental cues shape organisms from genes to whole-animal traits.
Abstract: Phenotypic plasticity allows organisms to alter development in response to environmental conditions. In extreme cases, these responses produce alternative phenot...