Endocrine Flexibility: Optimizing Phenotypes in a Dynamic World?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 476-488

  Taff, Conor C ^a   Vitousek, Maren N ^b  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENDOCRINOLOGY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; OPTIMIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESEARCH WORK;

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84962010038     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.03.005     Document Type: Review

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