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The maternal social environment shapes offspring growth, physiology, and behavioural phenotype in guinea pigs

BACKGROUND: Prenatal conditions influence offspring development in many species. In mammals, the effects of social density have traditionally been considered a detrimental form of maternal stress. Now their potential adaptive significance is receiving greater attention.Sex-specific effects of matern...

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Autores principales: von Engelhardt, Nikolaus, Kowalski, Gabriele J, Guenther, Anja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4722343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26816513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-12-S1-S13