Trait performance correlations across life stages under environmental stress conditions in the common frog, Rana temporaria.
If an organism's juvenile and adult life stages inhabit different environments, certain traits may need to be independently adapted to each environment. In many organisms, a move to a different environment during ontogeny is accompanied by metamorphosis. In such organisms phenotypic induction e...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010-07-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2908130?pdf=render |