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Developmental plasticity of growth and digestive efficiency in dependence of early-life food availability

1. Nutrition is a potent mediator of developmental plasticity. If food is scarce, developing organisms may invest into growth to outgrow size-dependent mortality (short-term benefit) and/or into an efficient digestion system (long-term benefit). . 2. We investigated this potential trade-off, by dete...

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Autores principales: Kotrschal, Alexander, Szidat, Sönke, Taborsky, Barbara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4384755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25866430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12230