Metabolic plasticity during mammalian development is directionally dependent on early nutritional status

Developmental plasticity in response to environmental cues can take the form of polyphenism, as for the discrete morphs of some insects, or of an apparently continuous spectrum of phenotype, as for most mammalian traits. The metabolic phenotype of adult rats, including the propensity to obesity, hyp...

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Main Authors: Gluckman, Peter D. (Author), Lillycrop, Karen A. (Author), Vickers, Mark H. (Author), Pleasants, Anthony B. (Author), Phillips, Emma S. (Author), Beedle, Alan S. (Author), Burdge, Graham C. (Author), Hanson, Mark A. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: 2007-07.
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