Predator cues alter the timing of developmental events in gastropod embryos

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 285-287

  Rundle, Simon D ^a   Smirthwaite, J J ^a   Colbert, M W ^b   Spicer, J I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterochrony; Plasticity; Sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EYE; GASTROPOD; HETEROCHRONY (ONTOGENY); MUSCLE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

GASTROPODA; RADIX AURICULARIA; RADIX BALTHICA;

EID: 79954465836     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0658     Document Type: Article

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