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Environmental change mediates plasticity in offspring traits through maternal effects in a coral reef fish.
The Science of the total environment - 20 Dec 2024
Cortese Daphne, Diaz Clara, Beldade Ricardo, Killen Shaun S, Scholz Zoe, Mills Suzanne C
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Wild populations are continuously challenged by natural environmental variation as well as threatened by anthropogenically-induced habitat loss and fragmentation. Non-genetic parental effects may be a key mechanism across taxa to cope with such environmental challenges and threats. However, the way in which environmental change modulates parental and offspring traits remains poorly studied in marine fish,...
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