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Adaptive shaping of the behavioural and neuroendocrine phenotype during adolescence.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Feb 2017
Zimmermann Tobias D, Kaiser Sylvia, Hennessy Michael B, Sachser Norbert
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Environmental conditions during early life can adaptively shape the phenotype for the prevailing environment. Recently, it has been suggested that adolescence represents an additional temporal window for adaptive developmental plasticity, though supporting evidence is scarce. Previous work has shown that male guinea pigs living in large mixed-sex colonies develop a low-aggressive phenotype as part of a queuing...
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