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Living in a risky world: the onset and ontogeny of an integrated antipredator phenotype in a coral reef fish.
Scientific reports - 30 Oct 2015
Ferrari Maud C O, McCormick Mark I, Allan Bridie J M, Choi Rebecca, Ramasamy Ryan A, Johansen Jacob L, Mitchell Matthew D, Chivers Douglas P
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Prey individuals with complex life-histories often cannot predict the type of risk environment to which they will be exposed at each of their life stages. Because the level of investment in defences should match local risk conditions, we predict that these individuals should have the ability to modulate the expression of an integrated defensive phenotype, but this switch in expression should occur at key...
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