Transgenerational effects of food availability on age at maturity and reproductive output in an asexual collembolan species
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Transgenerational effects of food availability on age at maturity and reproductive output in an asexual collembolan species.
Transgenerational effects of environmental conditions can have several important ecological and evolutionary implications. We conducted a fully factorial experiment manipulating food availability across three generations in the collembolan Folsomia candida, a springtail species that inhabits soil and leaf litter environments which vary in resource availability. Maternal and grandmaternal food a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0139