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Transgenerational effects of poor elemental food quality on Daphnia magna.
Oecologia - 1 Apr 2010
Frost Paul C, Ebert Dieter, Larson James H, Marcus Michelle A, Wagner Nicole D, Zalewski Alexandra
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Environmental effects on parents can strongly affect the phenotype of their offspring, which alters the heritability of traits and the offspring's responses to the environment. We examined whether P limitation of the aquatic invertebrate, Daphnia magna, alters the responses of its offspring to inadequate P nutrition. Mother Daphnia consuming P-poor algal food produced smaller neonates having lower body P content...
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