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Maternal Effects Underlie Ageing Costs of Growth in the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

Maternal effects provide a mechanism to adapt offspring phenotype and optimize the mother’s fitness to current environmental conditions. Transferring steroids to the yolk is one way mothers can translate environmental information into potential adaptive signals for offspring. However, maternally-der...

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Autores principales: Tissier, Mathilde L., Williams, Tony D., Criscuolo, François
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4020873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24828412
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097705