Environmental stress and reproduction in <it>Drosophila melanogaster</it>: starvation resistance, ovariole numbers and early age egg production
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The Y model of resource allocation predicts a tradeoff between reproduction and survival. Environmental stress could affect a tradeoff between reproduction and survival, but the physiological mechanisms underlying environmental media...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2006-07-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/6/57 |