Dietary-based developmental plasticity affects juvenile survival in an aquatic detritivore.

Abstract excerpt

Developmental plasticity is ubiquitous in natural populations, but the underlying causes and fitness consequences are poorly understood. For consumers, nutritional variation of juvenile diets is probably associated with plasticity in developmental rates, but little is known about how diet quality can affect phenotypic trajectories in ways that might influence survival to maturity and lifetime reproductive output....

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• Diet
• Fresh Water
• Phenotype
• Pigmentation