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Social Instability in Laying Quail: Consequences on Yolk Steroids and Offspring's Phenotype

Individual phenotypic characteristics of many species are influenced by non-genetic maternal effects. Female birds can influence the development of their offspring before birth via the yolk steroid content of their eggs. We investigated this prenatal maternal effect by analysing the influence of lay...

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Autores principales: Guibert, Floriane, Richard-Yris, Marie-Annick, Lumineau, Sophie, Kotrschal, Kurt, Guémené, Daniel, Bertin, Aline, Möstl, Erich, Houdelier, Cécilia
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21124926
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014069