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The Cost of Sex: Quantifying Energetic Investment in Gamete Production by Males and Females

The relative energetic investment in reproduction between the sexes forms the basis of sexual selection and life history theories in evolutionary biology. It is often assumed that males invest considerably less in gametes than females, but quantifying the energetic cost of gamete production in both...

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Autores principales: Hayward, April, Gillooly, James F.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3026017/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21283632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016557

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