Sexual size dimorphism in anurans fails to obey Rensch’s rule

BACKGROUND: Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) is related to ecology, behaviour and life history of organisms. Rensch’s rule states that SSD increases with overall body size in species where males are the larger sex, while decreasing with body size when females are larger. To test this rule, we analysed l...

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Autores principales: Liao, Wen Bo, Zeng, Yu, Zhou, Cai Quan, Jehle, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3599542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23496925
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-10-10

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