Experimental evidence for latent developmental plasticity: Intertidal whelks respond to a native but not an introduced predator

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 385-387

  Edgell, Timothy C ^a,b   Neufeld, Christopher J ^a,b  

^a BAMFIELD MARINE SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inducible defence; Invasive species; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COUPLING; CRAB; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GASTROPOD; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CRAB; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAIL; SPECIES INVASION; WHELK;

ANIMALIA; CANCER PRODUCTUS; CARCINUS; CARCINUS MAENAS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); NUCELLA; NUCELLA LAMELLOSA;

EID: 46949106299     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0204     Document Type: Article

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