Bite the mother, fight the daughter

Erkki Haukioja ()
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Erkki Haukioja: University of Turku

Nature, 1999, vol. 401, issue 6748, 22-23

Abstract: When under attack by a predator, many organisms activate defensive responses. But in two unrelated species, wild radish and water fleas, predation also increases the resistance of an organism's offspring which have had no previous contact with the predator.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/43327

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