A large-scale analysis of the effects of genotype on plasticity revealed a negative trend in which D. ambigua clones either showed strong within-generation plasticity, where females modified their own morphology and or life history traits, or strong across-generation plasticity (maternal effect) that altered offspring phenotype.
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Maternal effects in the model system Daphnia: the ecological past meets the epigenetic future.
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