Seasonally distinct life history patterns: The relation between maturational plasticity and behavioural phenotype in a precocial rodent (Cavia aperea).

By dynamically changing the photoperiod during gestation but keeping it stable after birth I want to determine:

• which behavioural phenotype develop depending on the photoperiod in early ontogeny
• whether the behavioural phenotype remains stable over maturation
• whether the behavioural phenotype correlates with physiological measures

The project is part of the research unit: Reduction of phenotypic plasticity in behaviour by early experience: functional consequences of an adaptive mechanism?

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