Artificial Selection on Relative Brain Size in the Guppy Reveals Costs and Benefits of Evolving a Larger Brain

The large variation in brain size that exists in the animal kingdom has been suggested to have evolved through the balance between selective advantages of greater cognitive ability and the prohibitively high energy demands of a larger brain (the “expensive-tissue hypothesis” [1]). Despite over a cen...

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Autores principales: Kotrschal, Alexander, Rogell, Björn, Bundsen, Andreas, Svensson, Beatrice, Zajitschek, Susanne, Brännström, Ioana, Immler, Simone, Maklakov, Alexei A., Kolm, Niclas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cell Press 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3566478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23290552
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.058

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3566478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23290552
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.058

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