Artificial selection reveals the energetic expense of producing larger eggs

BACKGROUND: The amount of resources provided by the mother before birth has important and long-lasting effects on offspring fitness. Despite this, there is a large amount of variation in maternal investment seen in natural populations. Life-history theory predicts that this variation is maintained t...

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Autores principales: Pick, Joel L., Hutter, Pascale, Ebneter, Christina, Ziegler, Ann-Kathrin, Giordano, Marta, Tschirren, Barbara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4995767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27559356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-016-0172-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4995767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27559356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-016-0172-y

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