Growing large and bulky in the presence of the enemy: Daphnia magna gradually switches the mode of inducible morphological defences

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1137-1143

  Rabus, Max ^a   Laforsch, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional morphology; Phenotypic plasticity; Predation; Predator prey interactions

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; CHEMICAL CUE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRUSTACEAN; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; JUVENILE; KAIROMONE; LIFE CYCLE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DAPHNIIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); NOTOSTRACA; TRIOPS; TRIOPS CANCRIFORMIS;

EID: 80053145519     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01840.x     Document Type: Article

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