Hormones and phenotypic plasticity: Implications for the evolution of integrated adaptive phenotypes

Current Zoology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 506-525

  Lema, Sean C ^a   Kitano, Jun ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental plasticity; Ecology; Endocrine; Hormone; Network; Pleiotropy; Reaction norm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881488887     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/59.4.506     Document Type: Article

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