Hormonally mediated maternal effects, individual strategy and global change

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1596, 2012, Pages 1647-1664

  Meylan, Sandrine ^a,d   Miles, Donald B ^b,c   Clobert, Jean ^c  

^a UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Paul Sabatier University   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dispersal; Glucocorticoids; Maternal effects; Phenotypic plasticity; Stress axis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATERNAL EFFECT; METAPOPULATION; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; STEROID;

EID: 84860674373     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0020     Document Type: Review

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