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Dispersal distance is influenced by parental and grand-parental density.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Sept 2014
Bitume E V, Bonte D, Ronce O, Olivieri I, Nieberding C M
Abstract excerpt
Non-genetic transmission of information across generations, so-called parental effects, can have significant impacts on offspring morphology, physiology, behaviour and life-history traits. In previous experimental work using the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae Koch, we demonstrated that dispersal distances increase with local density and levels of genetic relatedness. We here show that manipulation of...
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