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Adaptive maternal plasticity in response to perceptions of larval competition

✍ Scribed by Buser, Claudia C.; Ward, Paul I.; Bussière, Luc F.; Johnson, Marc

Book ID
121232914
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Weight
596 KB
Volume
28
Category
Article
ISSN
0269-8463

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