Table 2 Matrix representing development sequences (rows) progressing through different stages (columns: 1,2,..s, N)

From: Marine heatwaves impact organism developmental time

  1. Rows also represent different scenarios of temperature (T1, T2, T3). The last column in (a) and (b) highlight that the vector associated to each case is normalised. (a) Scenario 1, conservation along development; for constant (rows 1,2) and variable temperature (rows 3-5). Arrows show permutation of temperatures across rows (creation of a thermal fluctuation) and columns (change in the timing of a fluctuation). (b) Scenario 2: stage specific components. (c) Scenario 3: plasticity; the temperature experienced by the first stage determines the stage identity (=i) and the subsequent path of development. Temperature drives the number of stages, with a switch between pathways of two vs. three stages. In (c) there is no notion of (the normalised) vector Φ.
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