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Variation in Embryonic Metabolic Reaction Norms and the Role of the Environment.
Physiological and biochemical zoology : PBZ - 1 Jan 2000
Cones Alexandra G, Westneat David F
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AbstractEarly developmental environments can shape how organisms respond to later environments, but despite the potential for this phenomenon to alter the evolution of phenotypes and their underlying mechanisms in variable environments, details of this process are not understood. For example, both temperature and parental age can alter offspring metabolic plasticity and growth within species, yet the extent of...
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