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Oosorption in response to poor food: complexity in the trade-off between reproduction and survival

Plasticity in reproductive physiology is one avenue by which environmental signals, such as poor quality food, can be coordinated with adaptive responses. Insects have the ability to resorb oocytes that are not oviposited. Oosorption is proposed to be an adaptive mechanism to optimize fitness in hos...

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Autores principales: Moore, Patricia J, Attisano, Alfredo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3287376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22393481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4