The maintenance of phenotypic plasticity as a signal detection problem

American Naturalist

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 378-385

  Getty, Thomas ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0030497388     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/285930     Document Type: Article

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