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On the Use of a Simple Physical System Analogy to Study Robustness Features in Animal Sciences.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Sadoul Bastien, Martin Olivier, Prunet Patrick, Friggens Nicolas C
Abstract excerpt
Environmental perturbations can affect the health, welfare, and fitness of animals. Being able to characterize and phenotype adaptive capacity is therefore of growing scientific concern in animal ecology and in animal production sciences. Terms borrowed from physics are commonly used to describe adaptive responses of animals facing an environmental perturbation, but no quantitative characterization of these...
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