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What Prolongs a Butterfly's Life?: Trade-Offs between Dormancy, Fecundity and Body Size

In butterflies, life span often increases only at the expense of fecundity. Prolonged life span, on the other hand, provides more opportunities for oviposition. Here, we studied the association between life span and summer dormancy in two closely related species of Palearctic Meadow Brown butterflie...

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Autores principales: Haeler, Elena, Fiedler, Konrad, Grill, Andrea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4229126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25390334
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111955