Mice mothers devote energies to offspring when life is threatened
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 09:28
in Biology & Nature
An Iowa State University researcher has found that sick female deer mice devote their energy to producing healthier offspring. Lisa Schwanz, a researcher in the department of ecology, evolution and organismal biology, studied the size of offspring for both infected and healthy mice and found that females that had been infected with a parasite produced larger offspring than healthy females...
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