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Environmental stress and reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster: starvation resistance, ovariole numbers and early age egg production

BACKGROUND: The Y model of resource allocation predicts a tradeoff between reproduction and survival. Environmental stress could affect a tradeoff between reproduction and survival, but the physiological mechanisms underlying environmental mediation of the tradeoff are largely unknown. One example i...

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Autores principales: Wayne, Marta L, Soundararajan, Usha, Harshman, Lawrence G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16848899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-6-57