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Interaction between maternal effects and temperature affects diapause occurrence in the cricket Allonemobius socius.
Oecologia - 1 Jan 2006
Huestis Diana L, Marshall Jeremy L
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The induction of diapause can be adaptive for egg survival during unfavorable conditions, while direct development can be advantageous under favorable conditions by allowing additional generations to exploit abundant resources. Therefore, the physiological capability of a female to respond to environmental cues indicative of habitat quality by producing eggs of the appropriate developmental phenotype should be...
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