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Inducible Defenses with a "Twist": Daphnia barbata Abandons Bilateral Symmetry in Response to an Ancient Predator

Predation is one of the most important drivers of natural selection. In consequence a huge variety of anti-predator defenses have evolved in prey species. Under unpredictable and temporally variable predation pressure, the evolution of phenotypically plastic defensive traits is favored. These “induc...

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Autores principales: Herzog, Quirin, Rabus, Max, Wolfschoon Ribeiro, Bernard, Laforsch, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4757099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26886196
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148556