Investigations on the nature of the cost of reproduction: Susceptibility to heat stress in fruitflies

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1019, Issue , 2004, Pages 368-369

  Koochmeshgi, Jalal ^a   Ladonni, Shadi ^a   Hosseini Mazinani, Seyed Mehdi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cost of reproduction; Fruitfly; Heat stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; HEAT STRESS; LIFESPAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 3242716762     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1297.064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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