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Macroevolutionary patterns of bumblebee body size: detecting the interplay between natural and sexual selection

Bumblebees and other eusocial bees offer a unique opportunity to analyze the evolution of body size differences between sexes. The workers, being sterile females, are not subject to selection for reproductive function and thus provide a natural control for parsing the effects of selection on reprodu...

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Autores principales: del Castillo, Raúl Cueva, Fairbairn, Daphne J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3297177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22408725
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.65