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Maternal effects in the soft scale insect Saissetia coffeae (Hemiptera: Coccidae).
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Nov 2004
Spitzer Brian W
Abstract excerpt
Effects of maternal environment on offspring performance have been documented frequently in herbivorous insects. Despite this, very few cases exist in which exposure of parent insects to a resource causes the phenotype of their offspring to be adjusted in a manner that is adaptive for that resource, a phenomenon called adaptive transgenerational phenotypic plasticity. I performed a two-generation reciprocal...
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