Hatching date variability in wild populations of four coexisting species of African annual fishes.

Martin ReichardRadim BlažekMatej PolačikMilan Vrtílek

Published in: Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists (2017)

We suggest that hatching of annual killifish in the wild is a result of the interplay between environmental conditions and individual predisposition to respond to threshold environmental cues, ensuring effective bet-hedging against unpredictable inundation. Developmental Dynamics 246:827-837, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Keyphrases

genetic diversity
human health
life cycle
stress induced
risk assessment