Predator induced defenses in prey with diverse predators
Phenotypic plasticity is an environmentally based change in phenotype and can be adaptive. Often, the change in an organism's phenotype is induced by the presence of a predator and serves as a defense against that predator. Defensive phenotypes are induced in freshwater physid snails in respons...
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Texas A&M University
2006
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3309 |