Balanced trade-offs between alternative strategies shape the response of C. elegans reproduction to chronic heat stress

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Aprison, Erin Z ^a   Ruvinsky, Ilya ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO; GENITAL SYSTEM; HEAT STRESS; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PROGENY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPERM; SURVIVAL; THERMAL EXPOSURE; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEAT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HOT TEMPERATURE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84923352095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105513     Document Type: Article

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