Fig. 5: Developmental trajectories for the different scenarios.

a Scenarios 1 (blue symbols) and 2 (green symbols) of fixed trajectories and configuration space. b Scenario 3: Trajectories are not fixed and instead depend on the temperature (T1,T2,T3) experienced in stage-3 (star); when stage-3 is exposed to T3, development occurs through an extra stage, which results in an increase in the dimension of the configuration space.