ecophenotype

English

Etymology

eco- +‎ phenotype

Noun

ecophenotype (plural ecophenotypes)

1. A phenotype modified by an environmental factor.
   • 1987, Innovative Biostratigraphic Approaches to Sequence Analysis: New Exploration Opportunities : Selected Papers and Illustrated Abstracts, volume 8, Earth Enterprises:

     The expression of the genetic material residing within the cell represents the genotype, whereas the variation resulting solely from environmental influences (i.e., habitat) is referred to as the ecophenotype.

   • 2002, Jonathan A. Holmes, A. R. Chivas, The ostracoda: applications in Quaternary research:

     Moreover, the smooth ecophenotype is related to a closed, oxygen deleted environment whereas the reticulate ecophenotype occurs in a well oxygenated environment in which there is a maximal precipitation of carbonates.

   • 2004, Peter J. Hayward, A natural history of the seashore, page 32:

     Some lagoon species have been regarded previously simply as morphological variants - phenotypes - of similar marine species: Cerastoderma glaucum was long considered an ecophenotype of the common cockle, C. edule.

Derived terms

• ecophenotypic
• ecophenotypism