Maternal effects on male weaponry: female dung beetles produce major sons with longer horns when they perceive higher population density

BACKGROUND: Maternal effects are environmental influences on the phenotype of one individual that are due to the expression of genes in its mother, and are expected to evolve whenever females are better capable of assessing the environmental conditions that their offspring will experience than the o...

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Autores principales: Buzatto, Bruno A, Tomkins, Joseph L, Simmons, Leigh W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22823456
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-118

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22823456
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-118

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