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Developmental sculpting of social phenotype and plasticity.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews - 1 Apr 2004
Sakata Jon T, Crews David
Abstract excerpt
Early developmental variables engender behavioral and neural variation, especially in species in which embryonic environment determines gonadal sex. In the leopard gecko, Eublepharis macularius, the incubation temperature of the egg (IncT) determines gonadal sex. Moreover, IncT affects the sexual differentiation of the individual and, consequently, within-sex variation. Individuals hatched from eggs incubated at...
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