Maternal effects on phase characteristics in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria: a review of current understanding.

doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2007.05.011

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Maternal effects on phase characteristics in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria: a review of current understanding.

Journal of insect physiology - 1 Sept 2007

Simpson Stephen J, Miller Gabriel A

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Desert locusts demonstrate pronounced density-dependent polyphenism: a complex suite of traits shifts over the lifetime of an individual in response to crowding or isolation. These changes also accumulate across generations through a maternal effect. Female desert locusts alter the developmental trajectory of their offspring in response to their own experience of crowding. The mother possesses a memory of both...

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Animals
Female
Grasshoppers
Mothers
Phenotype
Pigmentation
Population Density

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PMID: 17624367
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2007.05.011

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