... from the predictable treatment exhibited the lowest levels of glycogen content. This suggests that mussels could exhibit different strategies for energy allocation when presented with predictable or unpredictable thermal stress. Environmental predictability has been shown to be a crucial determinant...

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... globulin environmental predictability opportunism protein red crossbill zebra finch Functional interactions between life-history traits (e.g. trade-offs) can drive evolution, and are a key aspect of evolutionary mechanisms in general ( Roff, 1992 ; Stearns, 1989 ; Zera and Harshman, 2001...