The behavioural and physiological ecology of embryos: responding to the challenges of life inside an egg.

Abstract excerpt

Adaptations of post-hatching animals have attracted far more study than have embryonic responses to environmental challenges, but recent research suggests that we have underestimated the complexity and flexibility of embryos. We advocate a dynamic view of embryos as organisms capable of responding - on both ecological and evolutionary timescales - to their developmental environments. By viewing embryos in this...

Topics

• Acclimatization
• Adaptation, Physiological
• Animals
• Embryonic Development
• Environment
• Phenotype