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Is corticosterone-mediated phenotype development adaptive? Maternal corticosterone treatment enhances survival in male lizards.
Hormones and behavior - 1 Jun 2005
Meylan Sandrine, Clobert Jean
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Hormones are an important interface between genome and environment, because of their ability to modify the phenotype. More particularly, glucocorticoids are known to affect both morphological, physiological and behavioral traits. Many studies suggest that prenatal stress (associated with an eleva...
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