The adaptive significance of maternal effects.

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Published in Trends Ecol Evol on October 01, 1998

Authors

T A Mousseau1, C W Fox

Author Affiliations

1: Dept of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.

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