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Coping with environmental uncertainty: dynamic bet hedging as a maternal effect

Mothers in a range of taxa manipulate the phenotype of their offspring in response to environmental change in order to maximize their own fitness. Most studies have focused on changes in the mean phenotype of offspring. Focusing on mean offspring phenotypes is appropriate for species in which mother...

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Main Authors: Crean, Angela J., Marshall, Dustin J.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2666679/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19324613
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0237
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