Introducing biological realism into the study of developmental plasticity in behaviour

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Groothuis, Ton G G ^a   Taborsky, Barbara ^b  

^a Behavioural Biology   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Behavioural development; Cumulative stress; Developmental plasticity; Early environment; Early programming; Interaction effects; Match and mismatch; Maternal effects; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977552906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-12-S1-S6     Document Type: Review

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