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Only Half Right: Species with Female-Biased Sexual Size Dimorphism Consistently Break Rensch's Rule
BACKGROUND: Most animal species display Sexual Size Dimorphism (SSD): males and females consistently attain different sizes, most frequently with females being larger than males. However the selective mechanisms driving patterns of SSD remain controversial. ‘Rensch's rule’ proposes a general sc...
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Public Library of Science
2007
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1964802/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17878932 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000897 |