From One Laying To Another, The Female Collembolan Adapts Its Eggs To Environmental Constraints
Friday, September 26, 2008 - 23:28
in Biology & Nature
Reproductive plasticity -- the ability of individuals to modify their reproduction and the characteristics of their progeny according to environmental or social conditions -- is a crucial factor in the demographics of animal populations, including man. Scientists have now demonstrated the adaptive nature of the reproductive behavior of certain arthropods from one laying to another, in the same female.