Abstract: Temperature during embryonic development affects ecological traits and influences the ability to rapidly adapt to the prevailing conditions in changing environments. Here, we review examples of how these developmental effects are manifested in life-history traits from studies of various fish species, with examples of impacts on somatic growth, age at migration and maturation, allocation of resources to gonads and egg size. Temperature during embryogenesis appears important for some behavioural decisions, such as when maturing Atlantic salmon Sa...
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Topics: 
Ecology
Zoology
Evolutionary biology