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A model for phenotype change in a stochastic framework.
Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE - 1 Jul 2010
Wake Graeme, Pleasants Anthony, Beedle Alan, Gluckman Peter
Abstract excerpt
In some species, an inducible secondary phenotype will develop some time after the environmental change that evokes it. Nishimura (2006) [4] showed how an individual organism should optimize the time it takes to respond to an environmental change ("waiting time''). If the optimal waiting time is considered to act over the population, there are implications for the expected value of the mean fitness in that...
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