Adaptation to Temporally Fluctuating Environments by the Evolution of Maternal Effects.
All organisms live in temporally fluctuating environments. Theory predicts that the evolution of deterministic maternal effects (i.e., anticipatory maternal effects or transgenerational phenotypic plasticity) underlies adaptation to environments that fluctuate in a predictably alternating fashion ov...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-02-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4766184?pdf=render |