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photoperiodicity

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photoperiodicity
the rhythm of certain biological phenomena such as hibernation and reproductive activity which are determined by the regularly recurring changes in light and dark caused by the annual passage of the earth about the sun.


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Holzapfel and Bradshaw remembered that idea one morning over coffee as they flipped through the decades of data they'd collected on photoperiodicity in W.
Obviously, this variation is mostly due to the biologic and social differences among parental pairs (10); however, fecundability may be also influenced by environmental factors such as temperature, photoperiodicity, and food availability or quality (11).
 
 
 
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