Selective processes in development: Implications for the costs and benefits of phenotypic plasticity

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-42

  Snell Rood, Emilie C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIRD; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEARNING; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; LEARNING; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84863435070     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/ics067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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