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The effect of maternal and grandmaternal age in benign and high temperature environments.
Experimental gerontology - 1 Dec 2005
Faurby Søren, Kjaersgaard Anders, Pertoldi Cino, Loeschcke Volker
Abstract excerpt
Maternal age is known to be of importance for the fitness of the offspring. Few studies have, however, been able to analyse this phenomenon as an isolated effect without confounding effects through genetic variation. This difficulty can be circumvented by working with parthenogenetic organisms. We investigated the effect of maternal and grandmaternal age on wing traits, pupal survival and developmental...
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