Another bad day for anticipatory maternal effects
by ullergroup | Nov 20, 2018 | Posts
A new study on water fleas, headed by Reinder and Alex, suggests that a classic example of adaptive maternal effects is not as adaptive as we might have thought. Some years ago, Tobias, Sinead and Shinichi did a meta-analysis that seemed to undermine the idea that...Recent Posts
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