| Autor: |
Hamdoun A; Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA. hamdoun@stanford.edu, Epel D |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A] 2007 Feb 06; Vol. 104 (6), pp. 1745-50. Date of Electronic Publication: 2007 Jan 30. |
| DOI: |
10.1073/pnas.0610108104 |
| Abstrakt: |
Contrary to the view that embryos and larvae are the most fragile stages of life, development is stable under real-world conditions. Early cleavage embryos are prepared for environmental vagaries by having high levels of cellular defenses already present in the egg before fertilization. Later in development, adaptive responses to the environment either buffer stress or produce alternative developmental phenotypes. These buffers, defenses, and alternative pathways set physiological limits for development under expected conditions; teratology occurs when embryos encounter unexpected environmental changes and when stress exceeds these limits. Of concern is that rapid anthropogenic changes to the environment are beyond the range of these protective mechanisms. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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