Anticipatory parental effects in a subtropical lizard in response to experimental warming

Anticipatory parental effects in a subtropical lizard in response to experimental warming

Abstract Parental effects may produce adaptive or maladaptive plasticity that either facilitates persistence or increases the extinction risk of species and populations in a changing climate. However, empirical evidence of transgenerational adaptive plastic responses to climate change is still scarc...

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Main Authors: Bao-Jun Sun, Yang Wang, Yong Wang, Hong-Liang Lu, Wei-Guo Du
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Zoology
Subjects:
Climate change
Growth, Hatchling
Parental effect
Reptile
Survival, Thermal adaptation
Transgenerational phenotypic plasticity
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12983-018-0296-3

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