Does the early social environment prepare individuals for the future? A match-mismatch experiment in female wild cavies
Abstract Background The social environment that mothers experience during pregnancy and lactation has a strong effect on the developing offspring. Whether offspring can be adaptively shaped to match an environment that is similar to the maternal one is still a major question in research. Our previou...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-04-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Zoology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12983-018-0261-1 |